[HTML][HTML] Gridded population survey sampling: a systematic scoping review of the field and strategic research agenda

DR Thomson, DA Rhoda, AJ Tatem… - International journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Introduction In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), household survey data are a main
source of information for planning, evaluation, and decision-making. Standard surveys are …

Using big data for evaluating development outcomes: A systematic map

F Rathinam, S Khatua, Z Siddiqui… - Campbell Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Policy makers need access to reliable data to monitor and evaluate the
progress of development outcomes and targets such as sustainable development outcomes …

Creating predictive social impact models of engineered products using synthetic populations

PD Stevenson, CA Mattson, EC Dahlin… - Research in Engineering …, 2023 - Springer
Transformative technologies and products can help solve some of society's most complex
problems. To create these new products and increase the likelihood of desired impact …

Improving the accuracy of gridded population estimates in cities and slums to monitor SDG 11: Evidence from a simulation study in Namibia

DR Thomson, FR Stevens, R Chen, G Yetman… - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
People living in slums and other deprived areas in low-and middle-income country (LMIC)
cities are under-represented in censuses, and subsequently in" top-down" census-derived …

A method for machine learning generation of realistic synthetic datasets for validating healthcare applications

TN Arvanitis, S White, S Harrison… - Health Informatics …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Digital health applications can improve quality and effectiveness of healthcare, by offering a
number of new tools to users, which are often considered a medical device. Assuring their …

[HTML][HTML] How accurate are WorldPop-Global-Unconstrained gridded population data at the cell-level?: A simulation analysis in urban Namibia

DR Thomson, DR Leasure, T Bird, N Tzavidis… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Disaggregated population counts are needed to calculate health, economic, and
development indicators in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), especially in settings …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution synthetic population mapping for quantifying disparities in disaster impacts: An application in the Bangladesh coastal zone

S Rubinyi, J Verschuur, R Goldblatt… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The impacts of natural disasters are often disproportionally borne by poor or otherwise
marginalized groups. However, while disaster risk modelling studies have made progress in …

Children's walking to urban services: An analysis of pedestrian access to social infrastructures and its relationship with land use

W No, J Choi, Y Kim - International Journal of Geographical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The conceptual framework of child-friendly cities guarantees children's equal access to
public urban services. Despite the widespread application of geographical information …

[HTML][HTML] UrbanPop: A spatial microsimulation framework for exploring demographic influences on human dynamics

J Tuccillo, R Stewart, A Rose, N Trombley, J Moehl… - Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ensuring the social equity of planning measures in social systems requires an
understanding of human dynamics, particularly how individual relationships, activities, and …

Allocating synthetic population to a finer spatial scale: An integer quadratic programming formulation

BF Yameogo, P Hankach… - … and Planning B …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Agent-Based Models (ABMs) are being increasingly used to evaluate urban systems, urban
policies and environmental impacts. One prerequisite for using the ABM framework consists …