Mapping Nitrogen Dioxide Across Europe
Here is a short video I did for the Royal Geographical Society to show how new satellite data can reveal the daily changes to nitrogen dioxide (and other pollut...
Category: Visualisation
How the Victorians Mapped London’s Cholera
It is, of course, John Snow who is credited with using maps to demonstrate that the clusters of deaths from cholera in London’s Soho during London’s...
London's Population Profile in 1935
The graphic below shows the population of London across a number of transects overlain on the city’s underlying terrain. It was produced by Ordnance Surve...
Map Projections
I’ve just discovered this really lovely graphic detailing a number of different map projections. It’s taken from the opening pages of the “Oxf...
World Population Density 1970-2000
This animation of estimated global population density between 1970-2000 uses data produced by NASA’s SEDAC. For more information see here.
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&...
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...
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.