Deceptive in their Beauty?
Finding ways to effectively map population data is a big issue in spatial data visualization. The standard practice uses choropleth maps that simply col...
Category: Visualisation
London Cycle Hire and Pollution
As a cyclist in London you can do your best to avoid left turning buses and dozy pedestrians. One thing you can’t really avoid though is pollution (althou...
The Power of Comparison: Just How Big Is It?
If I said a country was 1594719800 metres squared it would mean a lot less to you than if I said it was about the size of Greater London (so long as you ...
Coming of Age: R and Spatial Data Visualisation
I have been using R (a free statistics and graphics software package) now for the past four years or so and I have seen it become an increasingly powerful metho...
Mapped: Christmas Around the World
It would be a shame to end the year without a festive map! Jack Harrison (@jacksfeed) is studying for a research masters in “Advanced Spatial Analysis and...
The Best of 2011
As 2011 draws to a close it is worth reflecting on what, I think, has been a defining year for mapping and spatial analysis. Geographic data have become open, b...
Just how far can the Tube take you?
Transport for London have just released their performance data (link here) for the London Underground network. It is in the form of a really detailed file that ...
OpenStreetMap: 5 Years of Mapping London
This week I am giving a talk on some of the London maps that we produce in CASA. The hours of work I put in to such maps is minuscule compared to the amount of ...
Mapping Academic Tweets
Another day, another Twitter map- this time showing the global distribution of tweets that link to academic journal articles. I am always a bit skeptical of Twi...
Improved Tree Maps with R
“Treemaps display hierarchical (tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectangles. Each branch of the tree is given a rectangle, which is then tiled wit...