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House Prices – A Borough Cartogram

Posted on Thursday 19 March 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

We really like this simple borough-by-borough cartogram […]

cartogram, cost of living, data, house prices, squares, thames

Where is the R Activity?

Posted on Monday 10 June 2013 by James Cheshire

R has become one of the world’s most widely used […]

cartogram, map, R, r cran, R spatial, r users, Resources, rstats, rstudio

Mapping GCSE Scores

Posted on Tuesday 16 August 2011 by James Cheshire

In the UK, August is exam results month for 16-18 year olds. Every year, photos of leaping teenagers clutching their results are accompanied by reports of record attainment rates, debates around how challenging modern exams are and, more so recently than ever, concerns for the number of sixth form and university places. Back in March …

attainment, Britain, cartogram, child poverty, Education, Featured Maps, GCSE, london, Poverty, visualisation

Flattening the Earth

Posted on Monday 7 March 2011 by James Cheshire

Flattening the Earth so that it can be easily drawn on a 2-dimensional surface is complicated. Over many years map projections have been developed to aid in this process, but they can only really estimate (albeit very accurately) the shape and dimensions of things on the Earth’s round surface. Whilst it is important to understand …

cartogram, Featured Maps, Map projections, Resources, true size of africa, visualisation

Frozen Britain and No Central Heating?

Posted on Monday 20 December 2010 by Daniel Lewis

I liked Ben Hennig’s population cartogram of the UK under snow, but I thought it could perhaps show something a little more serious than simply where the people are. To do this I went to the UK Census 2001 (I know, an old data source, but the only thing I was aware of that could […]

cartogram, central heating, Representation, snow, Thoughts, winter