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    The Power of Print

    Posted on Tuesday 6 September 2016 by James Cheshire

    *Cross-posted from London: The Information Capital’s website* London’s maps are special. They were drawn by pioneers such as Charles Booth, who revealed the full extent of the city’s poverty, Jon Snow, who deployed maps to determine the cause of cholera, and Phyllis Pearsall, who mapped 23,000 streets in her hugely popular ‘A to Z’ guide. […]

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    The Coder and the Designer

    Posted on Tuesday 6 September 2016 by James Cheshire

    *Cross-posted from London: The Information Capital’s website* Whenever I teach an R class, I usually start by saying how the software is now used by the likes of The New York Times graphics department or Facebook to manipulate their data and produce great visualisations. However, I have always struggled to give tangible examples of how […]

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    London As You’ve Never Seen it Before…

    Posted on Tuesday 6 September 2016 by James Cheshire

    *Cross-posted from London: The Information Capital’s website* As London: The Information Capital enters its second year in print, we think its maps and graphics continue to show London at its best. Here are 12 of our favourites… 12. Photogenic Features A sleepy tiger, a blue whale, the Queen’s Guards and the arc of the London Eye. To get […]

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    • @emergentcity The personal blog-space of Gareth Simons -> architect | urbanist interested in performative simulation at the urban scale; space and flows as computational processes; information entropy & irreversibility; and the ‘edge of chaos’. Views are my own.
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