Crime Map of London
I was delighted to be asked to be part of the the Financial Times Magazine’s special graphics issue. It is a really great “celebration of visual cul...
Author: James Cheshire
Updated: Colonial Shipping Routes
One of the most popular set of maps I produced last year showed English, Spanish and French Shipping between 1750-1800. I am pleased to say it has been revamped...
Mapped: London's Fire Engine Callouts
This map shows the geography of fire engine callouts across London between January and September 2011. Each of the 144,000 or so lines represents a fire engine ...
What's so Great About a World Flight Paths Map?
The stunning map depicting global flight paths produced by Michael Markieta has proved extremely popular (over 13k shares on the BBC when I last checked). The d...
Subway Maps and Visualising Social Equality
Most government statistics are mapped according to official geographical units. Whilst such units are essential for data analysis and making decisions about, fo...
Visualising for Human Geography
The publication of the International Benchmarking Review of UK Human Geography back in March was a major event for the discipline. The report concludes that the...
Twitter Languages in the Guardian
An updated version of the London Twitter Languages map I produced with Ed Manley recently appeared as a double page spread in the Guardian. The colour scheme is...
Mapped: Twitter Languages in New York
Following the interest in our Twitter Tongues map for London, Ed Manley and I have teamed up with Trendsmap creator John Barratt to offer this snapshot of New Y...
Mapped: Twitter Languages in London
[zoomit id=”IIY6″ width=”auto” height=”400px”] **Update: You can see a new fully-interactive version here** Last year...
In Maps We Trust
Of all the different types of data visualisation, maps* seem to have the best reputation. I think people are much less likely to trust a pie chart, for example,...