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Traffic Counts

Posted on Friday 19 May 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

My latest London data visualisation crunches an interesting dataset from the Department of Transport. The data is available across England, although I’ve chosen London in particular because of its more interesting (i.e. not just car dominated) traffic mix. I’ve also focused on just the data for 8am to 9am, to examine the height of the […]

bicycles, bikes, cars, commute, counts, data, rush-hour, traffic, Transport

River Services Map

Posted on Wednesday 19 April 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

Londoners will be very familiar with the crowded London Underground services and their famous diagrammatic Tube Map, but might be less familiar with another public transport network – boats on the River Thames. Yes, you can commute to work by catamaran – as long as you live and work close to the river. London’s river […]

boat, boats, catamran, commute, RB1, river, River Bus, river services, River Thames, TFL, thames, Tourist, transport for london

O/D Map of London Commuting

Posted on Monday 12 September 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

This map shows the cross-borough London commuting flows in a different way to the conventional approach of drawing lines between the start and end of each commute (as shown here. It’s a large map of London boroughs, which each borough itself containing a small map of London. The intensity of the colour in each of […]

2016, commute, commuter, commuters, data, destination, flow, giCentre, o/d, origin, origin-destination, Robert Radburn

Mapping Flows in R

Posted on Monday 30 March 2015 by James Cheshire

Last year I published the above graphic, which then got […]

2011, census, commute, flows, ggplot2, R, R spatial, Resources, rstats, spatial analysis, visualisation