The Times Atlas of London
*This post has been cross-posted from the Mapping London blog.* A few months back I had the honour of being asked to approve the use of a couple of excerpts fro...
Author: James Cheshire
Mapping Academic Tweets
Another day, another Twitter map- this time showing the global distribution of tweets that link to academic journal articles. I am always a bit skeptical of Twi...
Interview for the Global Lab Podcast
This week I feature on the 4th Episode of the Global Lab podcast. The podcast is a great new initiative led by Martin and Steve from CASA where they talk about ...
Naming Rivers and Places
A map doing the rounds at the moment (thanks to a plug from flowingdata) is Derek Watkin's brilliant map of "generic" terms for rivers in the United States (abo...
Improved Tree Maps with R
“Treemaps display hierarchical (tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectangles. Each branch of the tree is given a rectangle, which is then tiled wit...
Mapping GCSE Scores
In the UK, August is exam results month for 16-18 year olds. Every year, photos of leaping teenagers clutching their results are accompanied by reports of recor...
England Riots: Offences Committed and Offenders Age
The Guardian have been keeping track of the magistrate cases and convictions resulting from the recent rioting in England. Using this data I have produced the &...
Global Migration Maps
Migrations of people have existed for millennia and occur at a range of scales and time-periods (from small-scale journeys to work through to intercontinental ...
Flattening the Earth
Flattening the Earth so that it can be easily drawn on a 2-dimensional surface is complicated. Over many years map projections have been developed to aid in thi...
