The long history of using maps to hold water companies to account
James Cheshire, UCL Southern Water was handed a record fine of £90 million in July 2021 after pleading guilty to illegally discharging sewage along the rivers a...
Tag: London
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...
Point Pattern Analysis using Ecological Methods in R
Here is a quick example for how to get started with some of the more sophisticated point pattern analysis tools that have been developed for ecologists – ...
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...
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...
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&#...
Crime Map of London
I was delighted to be asked to be part of the the Financial Times Magazine’s special graphics issue. It is a really great “celebration of visual cul...
Mapped: London's Fire Engine Callouts
This map shows the geography of fire engine callouts across London between January and September 2011. Each of the 144,000 or so lines represents a fire engine ...
Mapped: Twitter Languages in London
[zoomit id=”IIY6″ width=”auto” height=”400px”] **Update: You can see a new fully-interactive version here** Last year...
Sensing the City: Mapping London's Population Flows
I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the first Data Visualisation London Meetup event where I spoke about some of work we do at UCL CASA. A fair chunk o...