Kyle Walker 
Associate Professor and Chair | Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX, UNITED STATES
Professor Walker specializes in population geography, cities and suburbs and demographic data visualization
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Biography
Kyle Walker is an associate professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Urban Studies at Texas Christian University. His research interests include U.S. immigration politics, the demography of cities and suburbs and open data science. He teaches courses in human geography, Geographic Information Systems and data analysis.
Areas of Expertise (4)
Demographic Data Visualization
Population Geography
Data Analysis and Visualization
Cities and Suburbs
Accomplishments (5)
First Place, Student Paper Competition, Urban Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (co-winner)
2011
Brown Prize for best graduate student publication, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota (co-winner)
2010
First Place, Student Paper Competition, Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers
2010
Second Place, PhD Student Paper Competition, West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers
2009
First Place, Student Paper Competition, Population Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers
2008
Education (3)
University of Minnesota: Ph.D., Geography 2011
University of Minnesota: M.A., Geography 2007
Honours College, University of Oregon: B.A., Geography and French 2005
Affiliations (1)
- Focus on Geography (Journal) : Editorial Board Member
Links (4)
Media Appearances (5)
Open-Source Data Tools Help Put Kyle Walker on the Map
TCU Magazine online
2021-09-21
Eleven-year-old Kyle Walker gazed out the car window at the passing towns of the Great Plains. During the summer of 1994, his family was on its annual trip from Oregon to visit relatives in Minneapolis. Walker’s father, Gregg, believed in taking the scenic route. On that year’s trip, the family of four flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico, loaded up a rental car and hit the open road for a 1,200-mile adventure.
Where are Boston’s most educated neighborhoods?
Boston Globe
2017-08-16
The interactive map, based on Census data and part of a larger project to visualize the country’s shifting demographics, shows that the most-educated neighborhoods in the area are clustered, unsurprisingly, around universities, according to Kyle Walker, director of the Center for Urban Studies at TCU. “University students are not captured on this map,” Walker said. “But there is kind of a spillover effect.”...
Mesmerizing maps show where the most educated Americans live
Business Insider
2017-08-15
Kyle Walker, an assistant professor of geography at Texas Christian University, has created an interactive dot map visualizing US neighborhoods by educational attainment...
Mapping the Achievement Gap
Citylab
2017-03-13
This interactive visualization was created by Kyle Walker, a geography professor at Texas Christian University, who made the dot map of immigrants we’ve previously written about. (Both of Walker’s maps are influenced by demographic researcher Dustin Cable's racial dot map.)...
The Geography Of Heart Disease
TCU Magazine online
2016-02-16
Using geography and big data, Kyle Walker and Sean Crotty are showing how cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death in Texas, spreads across the state.
Research Grants (5)
Grant Submission Incentive Program
Addran College, TCU $5,000
2016
Grant Submission Incentive Program
AddRan College
2015
Junior Faculty Summer Research Program,
TCU Office of Research $6,000
2014
Research and Creative Activities Fund Grant
TCU Office of Research $3,750
2014
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
BCS-0902685 $11,333
2009
Articles (5)
tigris: An R Package to Access and Work with Geographic Data from the US Census Bureau
The R JournalWalker, Kyle E.
2016
Locating neighbourhood diversity in the American metropolis
Urban StudiesWalker, Kyle E.
2016
Baby boomer migration and demographic change in U.S. metropolitan areas
Migration StudiesWalker, Kyle E.
2016
Tools for interactive visualization of global demographic concepts in R.
Spatial DemographyWalker, Kyle E.
2016
The spatiality of local immigration policies in the United States
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografieWalker, Kyle E.
2015
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