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Pulse of the City (reboot)

Posted on Tuesday 8 May 2012 by robin

As I get to better grips with the full richness of the Oyster data set and the complexity of the TfL network it’s gradually getting easier to build better visualisations. One of the ones that I’ve wanted to revisit for quite some time was my original ‘pulse of the city’ animation (you can see it […]

COSMIC, dynamics, Front, london, processing, Public Transit, visualisation

A Week in the Life of London’s Public Transit System

Posted on Thursday 3 May 2012 by robin

I’ve been meaning to post this for ages but have had a great deal on my plate (more posts and visualisations to follow in the next week I hope) so this has kept slipping, together with the six or seven other ‘draft’ posts I’ve got going. Anyway, this visualisation shows average entries at each and every Underground, […]

COSMIC, data, Front, london, Public Transit, python, TFL, visualisation

Open Data & Visualisation

Posted on Wednesday 25 January 2012 by Jon Reades

In one of the more unusual invitations that I’ve received over the past few years, I was asked to speak about visualisation and open data at Transport Ticketing 2012, currently happening down in South Ken. Interestingly, in spite of …

COSMIC, Front, london, networks, Open Data, Public Transit, Resources, visualisation

London’s Rail System as a Network

Posted on Thursday 2 June 2011 by Jon Reades

As many of you know, for quite some time I’ve been wrestling with a massive data set from TfL — I make it that I have 120 million trip segments across 88 million identifiable journeys in the course of just …

COSMIC, england, Front, location, london, networks, Public Transit, visualisation

Early Views of Public Transit Usage in London

Posted on Wednesday 20 April 2011 by Jon Reades

In fits and starts, over the past month I’ve been getting to grips with an exciting new Oyster Card data set from TfL and the wonderfully supportive Andrew Gaitskell, their resident Oyster Card data expert. For those few of you …

COSMIC, Front, london, networks, OpenGL, Public Transit, visualisation

Visualising Public Transport Networks

Posted on Monday 21 March 2011 by Joan Serras

With the increasingly widespread availability of transport data, we can now visualise and explore new dynamic geographies of urban transport flows and networks. In this post, I show detailed animations of UK multi-modal public transport networks using timetable data. This …

Complex Systems, dynamics, Front, Models, networks, News, OpenGL, Public Transit, scale, UK, visualisation

Comedy Imitating Life

Posted on Thursday 10 July 2008 by Jon Reades

I came across an amusing coincidence between life and art/comedy recently: in the first corner we have The Onion’s take on why other people should shift to public transportation; and in the second corner we have the New York Times … Continu…

Built Environment, commuting, cost, Front Page, modes, Public Transit