Visualisation // Browsing posts in Visualisation
A look at visualizing.org
.gif&w=556&h=133&zc=1)
Visualizing.org is a great website that has recently been launched. It aims to be a community of creative people working to simplify complex issues through data and design. People can freely upload data and visualizations and all are freely usable under the creative commons non-commercial share alike license. It is especially easy to download the ...
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 surname diversity is not uniform across Great Britain. For example towns and cities (especially London) have relatively high surname diversities compared with rural areas because more ...
Harry Beck Inspired Maps
This past week I have come across a few original interpretations of Harry Beck’s classic London Underground Map. The Threadless clothing website has thrown up a couple. The first is of my favorites and is a Middle Earth Metro map. The second from threadless is a map of the Metropolitan Cardiac Authority Transport Routes: Continuing ...
A day in the life of the London Cycle Hire scheme.
For the past few days I have been taking screen shots of Oliver O’Brien’s hugely popular London Cycle Hire Status Map. How the map works is explained on Ollie’s blog. I have picked 24 hours (from midnight Tuesday 10th to midnight Wednesday 11th) to demonstrate the flows of people in and out of London. Nothing ...
1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak
Embedded below is a high resolution version of John Snow’s 1854 map of the Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) cholera outbreak. Widely cited as the one of the first (and arguably best) examples of using spatial analysis in epidemiological studies, Snow’s map holds a special place in the hearts of those using spatial analysis to ...
Stunning Old Atlases
As I have mentioned before, archive.org provides some amazing resources for free download. I thought I would have a look to see what it had in the way of old atlases and I wasn’t disappointed. Here are a couple of my favorites: The Reynold’s Universal Atlas was published in the 19th century and includes over ...
The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design
***Not long after posting this, the “The Look of Maps” appears to have been removed from archive.org”*** ESRI Press have announced they will be re-printing Arthur H. Robinson’s classic book “The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design“. The book begins with the following quote from William Morris Davis: “It is just as important ...
A Method of Representing Large, Multidimensional Datasets in a Single Map
Embedded below is my presentation to the British Cartographic Society’s Annual Conference 2010, held in Nottingham. You will find high resolution versions of many of the maps featured in the presentation available for download on this blog. British Cartogtraphic Society Annual Conference Talk View more presentations from James Cheshire.
Top 60 Chinese Cities
Cities are one of the many phenomena that follow a long-tailed distribution. In simple terms there are a few big cities and lots of small ones. The classic way of showing a long tailed distribution (and the method from which the name is taken) is to produce as plot such as that below: The infographic ...
The Colour of Votes in London
Utilizing the same technique as the national election map, I have mapped the Local Election results for the Greater London Area at Ward level for 2006 and 2010. As before I have used RGB space to choose the final colours of each Ward based on the proportion of people voting Labour (coloured red), Other (incl. ...
Popular Posts
-
Mapped: British, Spanish and Dutch Shipping 1750-1800
I recently...
-
Great Maps with ggplot2
The above...
-
Naming Rivers and Places
A map doing the rounds at the moment (thanks to a plug...
-
The Best of 2011
As 2011...
Copyright © 2012 - Spatial Analysis - All rights reserved. Conforms to W3C Standard XHTML & CSS
Recent Comments