My Academic Research: What's in a Name?
I have spent the last few years investigating the geography of family names (also called surnames). I work with the team who assembled the UCL Department of Geo...
Category: Surnames
Interview for the Global Lab Podcast
This week I feature on the 4th Episode of the Global Lab podcast. The podcast is a great new initiative led by Martin and Steve from CASA where they talk about ...
My Week in Maps
This week has been a busy one with the “publication” of a couple of maps I have been involved with alongside the circulation of a few cartographic g...
Mapping London's Surnames
Inspired by the What’s in a Surname? map we helped make with the National Geographic, I have created 15 interactive typographic maps to show the most popu...
What's in a Surname? (AKA United States of Surnames!)
The typographic map above (click for interactive version) is a collaboration between Oliver Uberti‘s design team at National Geographic Magazine and and m...