James Cheshire

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The Library of Lost Maps

Articles, dataviz, Visualisation

COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips

Resources, Visualisation, cities, Population, urbanisation

The era of the megalopolis: how the world’s cities are merging

Articles, London, Resources, Visualisation, cholera, john snow, London, maps, Visualisation, william farr

The long history of using maps to hold water companies to account

Featured Maps, August 2022, drought, heatwave, satellite, sentinel, UK

The Scarred Landscape of the Climate Crisis

Visualisation, 1976 drought, climate crisis, media, newspapers

Newspapers and the 1976 Drought

Atlas des Unsichtbaren

geopolitics, Resources, Visualisation

More than arrows

Visualisation, atlas, health, phd

PhD Opportunity: An Atlas of Health and Social Inequalities

Atlas of the Invisible Education, atlas of the invisible, dataviz, Visualisation

Atlas of the Invisible: Behind the Maps

question mark on chalk board

Atlas of the Invisible Education

Do Maps Lie?

teacher discussing her lesson about geography

Resources, Video

The Importance of Data and Geography in Education

climate road landscape people

Atlas of the Invisible Education, Video, climate anxiety, climate crisis, maps

Anxiety and Mapping the Climate Crisis

Video, Visualisation

If Data Could Talk Podcast

Visualisation, charts, data visualisation, maps

Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization

christmas, geopolitics, bauble, borders, christmas, geopolitics

The contested borders on my Christmas tree

Antarctica Ice Flows

What maps made by 20th century suffragists can teach us about holding leaders to account on climate change

Visualisation, data, mapping

Science and Cocktails: Maps of the Invisible

Resources, Visualisation, atlas of the invisible, creative process, dealing with falure

Failure is part of the visualization process

Atlas of the Invisible Education

Rising Sea Levels

Atlas of the Invisible Education

Changing light levels

Atlas of the Invisible Education

The rise of bicycle sharing schemes

Spatial Analysis, Population, rmaps

How England’s complicated political geography is confusing coronavirus rules

Atlas of the Invisible

Articles, Resources, Visualisation

Next slide please: what’s wrong with the UK government’s coronavirus charts

Articles, Visualisation, climate change, warming stripes

Why eye-catching graphics are vital for getting to grips with climate change

R Spatial, Resources, covid-19, government

Different Maps, Same Data

Featured Maps, Resources, Video, Visualisation, europe

Mapping Nitrogen Dioxide Across Europe

Articles, Resources, Video, mapping

Maptastic: How map makers will win the 2020 US election

London, Slideshow, Visualisation, London, maps

How the Victorians Mapped London’s Cholera

Uncategorized, Cartography, christmas, Map

The Ultimate Gift List for Map Lovers

Average Journey Times of Trains into London in 1968

London, Visualisation, dataviz, London, Population

London's Population Profile in 1935

Resources, Visualisation, Map projections

Map Projections

Visualisation, animation, population density

World Population Density 1970-2000

Google Talks: Where the Animals Go

Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, best practice, Big data, Visualisation, Visualization

Less is More: Data Visualisations for Big Data

Mapped: 5,000 Years of City Growth

Resources, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, maps, Population, R, rstats

Joy Division, Population Surfaces and Pioneering Electronic Cartography

Page from Roger Tomlinson thesis

Resources, Spatial Analysis, GIS, mapping

Roger Tomlinson's PhD: The first in GIS

R Spatial, Visualisation, ggplot2, Map, R, rmaps, rstats

Spinning Globes With R

Featured Maps, Resources, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, ggplot2, Map, Population, R, rmaps, stats

Population Lines: How and Why I Created It

R Spatial, Resources, Slideshow, Visualisation, R, rmaps, rstats

10 Million Dots: Mapping European Population

R Spatial, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, ggplot2, Map, mapping, R, rmaps, stats

Mapping 5,000 Years of City Growth

Video, Visualisation, Big data, Visualisation

Big Data and Design

Creative Mornings: Where the Animals Go

Edward Stanford Award for Innovation in Travel Publishing

EARL: The Power of Maps with R

Featured Maps, Slideshow, Visualisation, Cartography, infographics

Illustrations of Chartography

This map shows the London Output Area Classification, which shows how those with similar social attributes cluster together.

Useful Geographic Datasets

Resources, Visualisation, best practice, data visualisation, mapping

7 Deadly Sins of (Academic) Data Visualisation

R Spatial, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, R, rmaps, rstats

Mapping (historic) tracks in ggplot2

Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, datashine, future research leaders, Research

Datashine: Mapping the UK Population

Uncategorized, 10×10, commission

10×10: Bermondsey

Uncategorized, 10×10, commission

10×10 London: Land Water Land

Articles, London, Visualisation, LTIC

The Power of Print

London, Visualisation, LTIC

London As You've Never Seen it Before…

Featured Maps, Visualisation, data visualisation, Map

#15MinuteMap: Tropical Cyclone Tracks 1842-2014

Featured Maps, Visualisation, Map, UK

Colour of Votes: 2015 General Election

R Spatial, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, 2011, flows, ggplot2, R, rmaps, stats

Mapping Flows in R

London, Visualisation, LTIC

London: The Open Data Capital

London, R Spatial, Visualisation, comment, dataviz, London, R, rstats, Visualisation

Improving R Data Visualisations Through Design

Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, bodmas, datashine, Map, Research

DataShine Update

Featured Maps, London, Slideshow, Visualisation, infographics, London, LTIC, maps

London: The Information Capital

Featured Maps, Slideshow, Visualisation, Population

Population Lines Print

Slideshow, Visualisation, 2011

Mapped: Journeys to Work

Resources, Slideshow, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, bodmas, datashine, mapping, Visualisation

Welcome to DataShine!

Featured Maps, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, mapping, population density, UK

Mapping Where We Live

Spatial Analysis, Big data, bodmas, future research leaders

Big Open Data: Mining and Synthesis

Featured Maps, London, Media, Slideshow, Visualisation, commission, London

Crime Map of London

Featured Maps, Media, Slideshow, Visualisation, comment, Map

Updated: Colonial Shipping Routes

Featured Maps, Slideshow, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, London, Map, opendata

Mapped: London's Fire Engine Callouts

Featured Maps, London, Slideshow, Visualisation, Map

What's so Great About a World Flight Paths Map?

Resources, Visualisation

Subway Maps and Visualising Social Equality

Resources, Slideshow, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, GIS, Visualisation

Visualising for Human Geography

Twitter Languages in the Guardian

Featured Maps, R Spatial, Slideshow, Visualisation, Big data, language, R, Visualisation

Mapped: Twitter Languages in New York

Featured Maps, London, Slideshow, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, language, London, Map

Mapped: Twitter Languages in London

Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, Cartography, dataviz, maps, opendata

In Maps We Trust

Life Expectancy BBC News

Featured Maps, London, Slideshow, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, dataviz, geodemographics, Life Expectancy, opendata

Lives on the Line: Life Expectancy and Child Poverty as a Tube Map

Resources, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, Big data, Visualisation

Editorial: Visualisation Tools for Understanding Big Data

London, Resources, Visualisation, dataviz, mapping

In Praise of Paper Maps

Featured Maps, R Spatial, Slideshow, Visualisation, ggplot2, R, rstats

Mapping the World's Biggest Airlines

London, Media, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, Big data, CASA, flows, London, Population

Sensing the City: Mapping London's Population Flows

London, Visualisation, dataviz, language, London

The Twitter Languages of London

Featured Maps, R Spatial, Slideshow, Visualisation, comment, ggplot2, Map, maps, R, Visualisation

Mapped: British, Spanish and Dutch Shipping 1750-1800

Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, dataviz, Map

Fast Thinking and Slow Thinking Visualisation

Featured Maps, Visualisation, geodemographics, Map

Deceptive in their Beauty?

Featured Maps, London, R Spatial, Visualisation, barclays cycle, Boris bikes, London

London Cycle Hire and Pollution

R Spatial, ggplot2, London, R, rmaps, stats

Great Maps with ggplot2

Featured Maps, Visualisation, London, maps

The Power of Comparison: Just How Big Is It?

R Spatial, Resources, Spatial Analysis, Visualisation, comment, dataviz, R

Coming of Age: R and Spatial Data Visualisation

Featured Maps, Visualisation, christmas, Map

Mapped: Christmas Around the World

Surnames, europe, geodemographics, UCL

My Academic Research: What's in a Name?

Featured Maps, Visualisation, Map, rivers

The Best of 2011

Featured Maps, London, Visualisation, TFL

Just how far can the Tube take you?

London, Visualisation, London

OpenStreetMap: 5 Years of Mapping London

Resources, Big data

Why do we need a census?

London, Media, London Surnames

The Times Atlas of London

Featured Maps, Visualisation, Map

Mapping Academic Tweets

Media, Surnames, CASA, UCL

Interview for the Global Lab Podcast

Featured Maps, rivers

Naming Rivers and Places

R Spatial, Visualisation, RColorBrewer, rmaps

Improved Tree Maps with R

Featured Maps, London, Visualisation

Mapping GCSE Scores

Visualisation, guardian

England Riots: Offences Committed and Offenders Age

R Spatial, Visualisation, comment, ggplot2, R, rstats, Visualisation

Global Migration Maps

Featured Maps, Resources, Visualisation, Map projections

Flattening the Earth

Featured Maps, Visualisation, Cartography, national geographic, USA

World Transport Links and US Climate from The National Geographic over a Century ago

Automated Cartography: The urban expansion of Lansing

mappinglondon.co.uk: Another Blog about Maps!

Uncategorized, CASA, UCL

ESRI (UK) Case Study

Featured Maps, London, R Spatial, Visualisation, London, Map, opendata, Population, R, R Maps, R spatial, RColorBrewer, rspatialtips, rstats

Mapping London's Population Change 1801-2030

R Spatial, Visualisation

Using R to Map with Google Chart Tools

London, Visualisation, Boris bikes, Visualisation, Visualization

Brilliant Boris Bikes Animation

Carto-Junk?

Featured Maps, Visualisation, guardian, opendata

2010 Muslim Populations By Country

Featured Maps, Surnames, Visualisation, London Surnames, maps, US Surnames

My Week in Maps

Featured Maps, London, Surnames, Visualisation, London Surnames, Map

Mapping London's Surnames

Featured Maps, Surnames, Visualisation, national geographic, US Surnames, USA

What's in a Surname? (AKA United States of Surnames!)

Featured Maps, Visualisation

Typographic Maps

Visualisation, animation, Life Expectancy, Population, R, R spatial, rspatialtips, rstats

R interface to Google Chart Tools

Featured Maps, London, Visualisation, barclays cycle, Geography, Map, R, R Maps, TFL, Visualisation

Boris Bikes/Barclays Cycle Hire Average Journey Times

R Spatial, R, R Maps, R spatial, rmaps, rspatialtips, stats

Exporting KML from R

R Spatial, intro

Handling Spatial Data with R

Visualisation, Geography

Geographical Mistakes: Keeping Geographers Busy

Spotlight

The remarkable story of an overlooked map archive that reveals how maps have helped inspire some of the greatest scientific discoveries, but also led to terrible atrocities.