Different Maps, Same Data
The maps above were created for an article in The Conversation entitled Next slide please: data visualisation expert on what’s wrong with the UK government’s co...
Category: R Spatial
Point Pattern Analysis using Ecological Methods in R
Here is a quick example for how to get started with some of the more sophisticated point pattern analysis tools that have been developed for ecologists – ...
Spinning Globes With R
It has been a long held dream of mine to create a spinning globe using nothing but R (I wish I was joking, but I’m not). Thanks to the brilliant mapmate p...
10 Million Dots: Mapping European Population
Creating a giant dot density map using R.
Mapping 5,000 Years of City Growth
I recently stumbled upon a great dataset. It’s the first to provide comprehensive data for world city sizes as far back as 3700BC. The authors (Meredith R...
Mapping (historic) tracks in ggplot2
This tutorial was first published in “Geocomputation a Practical Primer“. Here is a more complex example showing how to produce a map of 18th Centur...
Mapping Flows in R
Last year I published the above graphic, which then got converted into the below for the book London: The Information Capital. I have had many requests for the ...
Improving R Data Visualisations Through Design
When I start an R class, one of my opening lines is nearly always that the software is now used by the likes of the New York Times graphics department or Facebo...
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...
Mapping the World's Biggest Airlines
The map above shows the routes flown by the top 7 airlines (by international passenger distance flown). The base map shows large urban areas and I have attempte...