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...
Category: Visualisation
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...
Typographic Maps
I wanted to write this post to provide some context to a couple of very special maps I intend to share over the next few weeks. They say a picture is worth a th...
R interface to Google Chart Tools
Hans Rosling eat your heart out! It is now possible to interface R statistics software to Google’s Gapminder inspired Chart Tools. The plots below were produced...
Boris Bikes/Barclays Cycle Hire Average Journey Times
The visualisation above shows the average relative duration of Boris Bikers’ weekday journeys over a 4 month period at hourly intervals. For each time ste...
Geographical Mistakes: Keeping Geographers Busy
This is a cross post from Hodder Geography’s Expert Blog. As geographers we try to better understand the world, and I believe one of our most important sk...