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UK Election Map: What colour is your constituency?
Overview The 2010 UK election results have been visualised in hundreds of different ways. The map below is another contribution. We have used the RGB Colour Model to create the colours. The colour model works by mixing Red, Green and Blue to produce the final colour (more details below).We have given the Conservatives blue, Labour ...
Magnificent Maps
Last Sunday I visited the Magnificent Maps Exhibition at the British Library. The exhibition has been hugely popular and I can see why- I thoroughly enjoyed my visit. The amount of information within the maps means I want to make a second visit. My favourite map overall was the Klenke Atlas for its sheer size ...
New York Times Map of Winter Olympic Medals
What is interesting about this map (click on image above to visit interactive version) is not what it shows but what it doesn’t show. In this case it is most of the world. The entire African and South American continents are missing. This obviously directly related to the level of investment in the Winter Olympics ...
Mapping Free Data: London’s Working Week
Much of the data downloadable from London’s Data Store have a spatial dimension. Mapping this, even in the simplistic way above, should be encouraged to raise awareness of some of the stories it can (and can’t) tell about life in London. One of the most important uses I foresee for this data is in an ...
London Population Density 1801- 2001
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Using data from the excellent new London Data Store website I have produced a maps showing London’s population density for each decade between 1801 and 2001. An especially interesting pattern from the maps is that of increased population densities in central London until around 1951 and then a gradual decline until 2001. Outer London boroughs ...
UK Carbon Emissions
I read recently this article on the BBC News website. I thought the map they used (below) to show the areas of Britain with the largest domestic carbon footprints was a little uninspiring. The colour scale was unclear with no explanation as to why the numbers jump around (the interval changes from 1 to 2) ...
Roads Marking Landscape
Ben Fry has produced a map of the USA’s landscape patterns by plotting only its roads. His All Streets project involved collating network data covering all the roads in the lower 48 United States (26 million road segments!) and mapping them (see below). It is a very simple idea that produces remarkable results. Roads are ...
Featured Map: "Non-British Names Map"
I wanted to avoid the misleading effects of poorly selected spatial units and inappropriate data categorisation in my next Featured Map. I produced it for a forthcoming CASA Working Paper to inform my analysis of general surname trends in Great Britain by accounting for areas of large numbers of “non-British” names. By running Electoral Roll ...
Featured Map: Possible Surname Regions in Britain
This map is one I created for a working paper I am currently writing. Using surnames from the 1881 census of Great Britain, I have been implementing a measure (the Lasker’s Distance) that establishes the similarity of populations based on their Coefficient of Isonymy. The Lasker’s Distance enables the similarities or differences between populations (in ...
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