Welcome to DataShine!
Last October I was fortunate enough to be awarded an ESRC “Future Research Leaders” grant. These run for up to 3 years and offer the opportunity for early...
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Front Page of the British Medical Journal
Oliver O’Brien and I have managed to sneak a map on the front page of this week’s issue of the British Medical Journal. The graphic shows the modelled flows...
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Stunning Maps of World Topography
Robin Edwards, a researcher at UCL CASA, has created these stunning topographic maps using the high resolution elevation data provided by the British Oceanographic Data...
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Coxcomb Plots and Spiecharts in R
I am not a great fan of pie charts since they are often used for the sake of it in circumstances where a chart is not needed at all! That said, I am willing to make an...
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Climate Change and the State of Science
This is a really nice video funded by the UN Foundation and produced by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and Globaia. It combines a range of impressive...
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Cinematic Mapping
I recently posted a great visualisation showing 24 hours of shipping in the Baltic. I liked it for its cinematic appeal (was a bit less keen on the music though), and...
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spatial.ly is written by James Cheshire. James is a lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis where he researches, teaches and maps.
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