Halloween Surname Map
Just for a bit of fun, I have produced a map of the places you are most likely to meet someone with a “scary” surname. I have only thought of a few off the...
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RGS IBG 2010: Analysing and Visualising Social Change: The Case of Surnames
Analysing and Visualising Social Change: The Case of Surnames View more presentations from James...
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Surname Diversity in Great Britain
As part of my PhD research I recently produced the map below (high res. version) that shows the diversity of surnames in Great Britain. I wanted to demonstrate that...
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WhereCampEU: the origin of the ‘Campers
I have run the WhereCampEU 2010 attendee list (without duplicate names) through the Onomap Classification tool developed here at UCL Geography/ CASA. It gives a fair...
Read MoreSome Examples of GIS at UCL: ESRI (UK) Update
Below is the presentation I gave today at ESRI (UK). It was designed to give a few examples of PhD research within my immediate research group at UCL and also provide...
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A "Global" Surname Cloud
The WorldNames Profiler was created by my supervisors and fellow members of my research group. Behind the project is a large database containing surnames from 26...
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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.