What's in a Surname? (AKA United States of Surnames!)
The typographic map above (click for interactive version) is a collaboration between Oliver Uberti‘s design team at National Geographic Magazine and and m...
Author: James Cheshire
Typographic Maps
I wanted to write this post to provide some context to a couple of very special maps I intend to share over the next few weeks. They say a picture is worth a th...
R interface to Google Chart Tools
Hans Rosling eat your heart out! It is now possible to interface R statistics software to Google’s Gapminder inspired Chart Tools. The plots below were produced...
Boris Bikes/Barclays Cycle Hire Average Journey Times
The visualisation above shows the average relative duration of Boris Bikers’ weekday journeys over a 4 month period at hourly intervals. For each time ste...
Exporting KML from R
Google Earth has become a popular way of disseminating spatial data. KML is the data format required to do this. It is possible to load almost any type of spati...
Handling Spatial Data with R
Spatial data are becoming increasingly common, as are the tools available in R to process it. It takes a little time to understand how R handles spatial data; t...
Geographical Mistakes: Keeping Geographers Busy
This is a cross post from Hodder Geography’s Expert Blog. As geographers we try to better understand the world, and I believe one of our most important sk...