Kyle Walker

Associate Professor and Chair Texas Christian University

  • Fort Worth TX

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

Demographic Data Visualization
Population Geography
Data Analysis and Visualization
Cities and Suburbs

Accomplishments

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

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Education

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

  • Focus on Geography (Journal) : Editorial Board Member

Media Appearances

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.

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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.”...

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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...

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Research Grants

Grant Submission Incentive Program

Addran College, TCU

2016

Grant Submission Incentive Program

AddRan College

2015

Junior Faculty Summer Research Program,

TCU Office of Research

2014

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Articles

tigris: An R Package to Access and Work with Geographic Data from the US Census Bureau

The R Journal

Walker, Kyle E.

2016

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Locating neighbourhood diversity in the American metropolis

Urban Studies

Walker, Kyle E.

2016

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Baby boomer migration and demographic change in U.S. metropolitan areas

Migration Studies

Walker, Kyle E.

2016

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