I am currently a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Digital and Computational Demography, Laboratory of Migration and Mobility at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock and at Sociodemography Research Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona.
I analyse spatial digital trace data to study human mobility patterns and the implications for disease dynamics and inequalities.
My latest paper is:
Kotov, E., & Denecke, E. (2024). Expanding the Lifespan of Software for Demographic Analysis with Containers: An Application of Spatial Sampling. The Denominator. Population Dynamics Lab.
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I worked on many R packages:
- developed
{rJavaEnv}package to manage Java environment for Java-dependent R packages
latest work in progress is on
{spanishoddata}with Robin Lovelace for accessing Spanish origin-destination matrcies based on aggregated mobile phone based human mobility datadeveloped
{wikimapR}for getting data using Wikimapia APIenhanced
rangfor reproducible research, and made contributions tolayer,geofacet,esri2sfand more R packages and other open source software.
- developed
I share my teaching materials online, and I used to teach reproducible data analysis in R and computational spatial morphology to urban researchers and planners.
Research interests
Intra-urban and inter-regional mobility, commuting and migration; determinants, external effects and spillover effects
Implications of human mobility for disease dynamics and inequalities