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...
Tag: dataviz
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...
In Maps We Trust
Of all the different types of data visualisation, maps* seem to have the best reputation. I think people are much less likely to trust a pie chart, for example,...
Lives on the Line: Life Expectancy and Child Poverty as a Tube Map
Maps have always been a powerful way of highlighting London’s social inequalities (Charles Booth‘s and John Snow‘s are the most iconic exampl...
In Praise of Paper Maps
When was the last time you held a paper map? I don’t just mean a map printed on paper, I mean one that was designed to be viewed on paper in the firs...
The Twitter Languages of London
Last year Eric Fischer produced a great map (see below) visualising the language communities of Twitter. The map, perhaps unsurprisingly, closely matches the ge...
Fast Thinking and Slow Thinking Visualisation
Last week I attended the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference and heard a talk by Robert Groves, Director of the US Census Burea...
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...