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Square Deal: A Tube Map of House Prices

Posted on Wednesday 10 August 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

The tube map is a useful base for data maps of London, because most people (north of the river, at least) tend to think of the city’s layout in terms of the tube map – generally, you know what your nearest tube station is. We’ve used the idea before to show maps of life expectancy, […]

data, house prices, property, radius, square foot, tube

Data Maps with Force Layout

Posted on Friday 3 June 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

Alexander Brett has created this interactive map of London using the D3 visualisation framework and its “Force Layout” view. This places the data points (London ward centroids) at their geographic origin, and then applies a series of competing forces, as if the points are connected by a mesh of springs, to subtly adjust the locations […]

circles, crime, d3, D3.js, data, force, force layout, graph, house prices, JavaScript

Land Registry Consultation #2: Reasons to Respond

Posted on Monday 4 April 2016 by Jon Reades

In some circles (e.g. mine) news that the government is trying (again) to sell off the Land Registry has caused something of a stir. The curtain closed on the first act of this drama in March 2014, by which time 91% … Continue reading →

data, house prices, Housing, land registry, Open Data, Research