The Power of Print
Cross-posted from London: The Information Capital’s website London’s maps are special. They were drawn by pioneers such as Charles Booth, who revealed the full ...
Category: Visualisation
London As You've Never Seen it Before…
*Cross-posted from London: The Information Capital’s website* As London: The Information Capital enters its second year in print, we think its maps and gr...
#15MinuteMap: Tropical Cyclone Tracks 1842-2014
More and more I stumble across really cool datasets online that are crying out to be mapped, but I never seem to have the time to do anything fun with them. I h...
Colour of Votes: 2015 General Election
There have been many great interactive maps and graphics produced for the 2015 General Election. A map I haven’t seen though is one that attempts to show ...
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 ...
London: The Open Data Capital
This has been cross-posted from a guest blog post I wrote on the London Datastore. Throughout London’s history, its data have inspired innovative maps and visua...
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...
DataShine Update
Back in June Oliver O’Brien and I launched an interactive census map called DataShine. It has been hugely successful with a core of regular users in addit...
London: The Information Capital
I am pleased announce that London: The Information Capital will be published on the 30th October. It is a book bursting with maps and graphics about the world&#...
Population Lines Print
Unfortunately the print is no longer available I recently produced a map entitled “Population Lines”, which shows population density by latitude. Th...