Mapped: Twitter Languages in New York
Following the interest in our Twitter Tongues map for London, Ed Manley and I have teamed up with Trendsmap creator John Barratt to offer this snapshot of New York...
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Mapped: Twitter Languages in London
**Update: You can see a new fully-interactive version here** Last year Eric Fischer produced a great map (see end of post) visualising the language communities...
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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 examples of...
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Mapping the World’s Biggest Airlines
The map above shows the routes flown by the top 7 airlines (by international passenger distance flown). The base map shows large urban areas and I have attempted to...
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Mapped: British, Spanish and Dutch Shipping 1750-1800
I recently stumbled upon a fascinating dataset which contains digitised information from the log books of ships (mostly from Britain, France, Spain and The Netherlands)...
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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 colour...
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spatial.ly is written and curated by James Cheshire. James is a lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis where he researches, teaches and maps.