Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R
Last week I ran an introductory workshop on the analysis and visualisation of spatial data with R. The software has become established as one of the best around for...
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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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Great Maps with ggplot2
The above map (and this one) was produced using R and ggplot2 and serve to demonstrate just how sophisticated R visualisations can be. We are used to seeing similar...
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Global Migration Maps
Migrations of people have existed for millennia and occur at a range of scales and time-periods (from small-scale journeys to work through to intercontinental...
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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.