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...
Category: London
Mapped: Twitter Languages in London
[zoomit id=”IIY6″ width=”auto” height=”400px”] **Update: You can see a new fully-interactive version here** Last year...
Lives on the Line: Life Expectancy and Child Poverty as a Tube Map
Maps have always been a powerful way of highlighting London’s social inequalities (Charles Booth‘s and John Snow‘s are the most iconic exampl...
In Praise of Paper Maps
When was the last time you held a paper map? I don’t just mean a map printed on paper, I mean one that was designed to be viewed on paper in the firs...
Sensing the City: Mapping London's Population Flows
I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the first Data Visualisation London Meetup event where I spoke about some of work we do at UCL CASA. A fair chunk o...
The Twitter Languages of London
Last year Eric Fischer produced a great map (see below) visualising the language communities of Twitter. The map, perhaps unsurprisingly, closely matches the ge...
London Cycle Hire and Pollution
As a cyclist in London you can do your best to avoid left turning buses and dozy pedestrians. One thing you can’t really avoid though is pollution (althou...
Just how far can the Tube take you?
Transport for London have just released their performance data (link here) for the London Underground network. It is in the form of a really detailed file that ...
OpenStreetMap: 5 Years of Mapping London
This week I am giving a talk on some of the London maps that we produce in CASA. The hours of work I put in to such maps is minuscule compared to the amount of ...
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...