Joy Division, Population Surfaces and Pioneering Electronic Cartography
There has been a resurgence of interest in data visualizations inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover. These so-called “Joy Plots&...
Category: Resources
Roger Tomlinson's PhD: The first in GIS
The late Roger Tomlinson is considered the “Father of Geographic Information Systems” and he completed his PhD in the UCL Department of Geography in 1974. Tomli...
Population Lines: How and Why I Created It
Thanks to the power of Reddit the “Population Lines” print (buy here) I created back in 2013 has attracted a huge amount of interest in the past wee...
10 Million Dots: Mapping European Population
Creating a giant dot density map using R.
Useful Geographic Datasets
There’s more data out there than ever before and I’m keen for students and researchers to make full use of it. Here are a number of my “go to&...
7 Deadly Sins of (Academic) Data Visualisation
I was recently asked to deliver a days training on scientific data visualisation. I spent a while scanning through papers to pull out what I see as the “7...
Welcome to DataShine!
Last October I was fortunate enough to be awarded an ESRC “Future Research Leaders” grant. These run for up to 3 years and offer the opportunity for...
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...
Editorial: Visualisation Tools for Understanding Big Data
I recently co-wrote an editorial (download the full version here) with Mike Batty (UCL CASA) in which we explored some of the current issues surroundi...