How England’s complicated political geography is confusing coronavirus rules
James Cheshire, UCL and Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool As England emerged from its second national lockdown in early December, Boris Johnson, the UK pr...
Category: Spatial Analysis
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 – ...
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&...
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...
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...
Datashine: Mapping the UK Population
All the DataShine websites (except DataShine Election) are derived from a common codebase and use the OpenLayers 3 mapping platform to display a full-window sli...
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 ...