Zack W. Almquist

Zack W. Almquist

Associate Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics and Senior Data Science Fellow @ eScience

Demography and Health

Migration

Peer Reviewed Articles, Working Papers and Policy Reports

  • Giraudy, E., P. Maas, S. Iyer, Z. Almquist, J. Schneider, and A. Dow (2021). Measuring long-term displacement using Facebook data. IDMC Global Rep. Internal Displacement (GRID), Geneva, Switzerland, Tech. Rep.
  • Almquist, Z. W., T. D. Nguyen, M. Sorensen, X. Fu, and N. D. Sidiropoulos (2021). Uncovering migration systems through spatio-temporal tensor co-clustering. arXiv: 2112.15296 [stat.AP].
  • Maas, P., Z. W. Almquist, E. Giraudy, and J. Schneider (2020). Using social media to measure demographic responses to natural disaster: Insights from a large-scale Facebook survey following the 2019 Australia Bushfires. arXiv preprint arXiv: 2008.03665.
  • Abel, G. J., J. DeWaard, J. Trang Ha, and Z. W. Almquist (2021). The Form and Evolution of International Migration Networks, 1960-2015. Population, Space and Place 27(3), 1–15.

Spatial Demography

Peer Reviewed Articles

  • Sutton, A. and Z. W. Almquist (2023). “Small Area Estimation for Demographic Data”. In: Recent Trends in Demographic Data. Ed. by P. M. Eloundou-Enyegue. IntechOpen.
  • Thomas, L. J., P. Huang, F. Yin, J. Xu, Z. W. Almquist, J. R. Hipp, and C. T. Butts (2022). Geographical Patterns of Social Cohesion Drive Disparities in Early COVID Infection Hazard. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(22).
  • Thomas, L. J., P. Huang, F. Yin, X. I. Luo, Z. W. Almquist, J. R. Hipp, and C. T. Butts (2020). Spatial Heterogeneity Can Lead to Substantial Local Variations in COVID-19 Timing and Severity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(39), 24180–24187.
  • Almquist, Z. W. (2020). Large-scale Spatial Network Models: An application to modeling information diffusion through the homeless population of San Francisco. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 47(3), 523–540.
  • Almquist, Z. W., N. E. Helwig, and Y. You (2020). Connecting Continuum of Care Point-in-Time Homeless Counts to United States Census Areal Units. Mathematical Population Studies 27(1), 46–58.
  • Almquist, Z. W. and C. T. Butts (2012). Point process models for household distributions within small areal units. Demographic Research 26(22), 593–632.
  • Almquist, Z. W. (2010). US Census Spatial and Demographic Data in R: The UScensus2000 Suite of Packages. Journal of Statistical Software 37(6), 1–31.

Health

Peer Reviewed Articles

  • Almquist, Z. W., I. Kahveci, A. Hazel, O. Kajfasz, J. Rothfolk, C. Guilmette, M. Anderson, L. Ozeryansky, and A. Hagopian (2024). Innovating a Community-driven Enumeration and Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness: A Network Sampling Approach for the HUD-Mandated Point-in-Time Count. American Journal of Epidemiology.
  • Anderson, M., A. Hazel, J. M. Perkins, and Z. W. Almquist (2024). Identity and Generosity Norms Among People Experiencing Homelessness in Nashville, TN: A Dictator Game Experiment. International Journal on Homelessness.
  • Ford, J. D., D. Marengo, M. Olff, C. Armour, J. D. Elhai, Z. W. Almquist, and E. S. Spiro (2022). Temporal Trends in Health Worker Social Media Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Research in Nursing & Health 45(6).
  • Thomas, L. J., P. Huang, F. Yin, J. Xu, Z. W. Almquist, J. R. Hipp, and C. T. Butts (2022). Geographical Patterns of Social Cohesion Drive Disparities in Early COVID Infection Hazard. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(22).
  • Anderson, M. C., A. Hazel, J. M. Perkins, and Z. W. Almquist (2021). The Ecology of Unsheltered Homelessness: Environmental and Social-Network Predictors of Well-Being among an Unsheltered Homeless Population. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(14), 7328.
  • Jones, J. H., A. Hazel, and Z. W. Almquist (2020). Transmission-Dynamics Models for the SARS Coronavirus-2. American Journal of Human Biology 32(5), 1–14.
  • Thomas, L. J., P. Huang, F. Yin, X. I. Luo, Z. W. Almquist, J. R. Hipp, and C. T. Butts (2020). Spatial Heterogeneity Can Lead to Substantial Local Variations in COVID-19 Timing and Severity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(39), 24180–24187.
  • Zeng, L., Z. W. Almquist, and E. S. Spiro (2019). “Friending” in Online Fitness Communities: Exploring Activity-Based Online Network Structure. In: Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp.2822–2831.
  • Zeng, L., Z. W. Almquist, and E. S. Spiro (2018). Stay Connected and Keep Motivated: Modeling Activity Level of Exercise in an Online Fitness Community. In: Social Computing and Social Media. Technologies and Analytics. Ed. by G. Meiselwitz. Vol. 10914. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, pp.137–147.
  • Zeng, L., Z. W. Almquist, and E. S. Spiro (2017). Let’s Workout! Exploring Social Exercise in an Online Fitness Community. In: The iConference 2017 Proceedings, Wuhan, China. Vol. 2, pp.87–98.
  • Anker, J. J., M. Forbes, Z. W. Almquist, J. Menk, P. Thuras, and M. G. Kushner (2017). A Network Approach to Conceptualizing Comorbid Internalizing and Alcohol Use Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 126(3), 325–339.