NikeFuel Map
Here is an extract of a map I co-created with Ollie O […]
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Launching LuminoCity GB: Urban Form and Dynamics Explorer
Our cities have been changing dramatically in recent years, with the intensification of urban centres, redevelopment of old industrial spaces, new demographic trends, and the pressures of a volatile global economy. The aim of the LuminoCity website, which launches in beta today, is to visualise urban form and dynamics to better understand how these trends … Continue reading →
Launching LuminoCity GB: Urban Form and Dynamics Explorer
Our cities have been changing dramatically in recent years, with the intensification of urban centres, redevelopment of old industrial spaces, new demographic trends, and the pressures of a volatile global economy. The aim of the LuminoCity website, which launches in beta today, is to visualise urban form and dynamics to better understand how these trends … Continue reading →
Launching LuminoCity GB: Urban Form and Dynamics Explorer
Our cities have been changing dramatically in recent years, with the intensification of urban centres, redevelopment of old industrial spaces, new demographic trends, and the pressures of a volatile global economy. The aim of the LuminoCity website, which launches in beta today, is to visualise urban form and dynamics to better understand how these trends … Continue reading →
NikeFuel Map
After reviewing many fine maps produced by others, it […]
Continue reading »London on the Move
The image above shows the latest attempt at producing a real-time moving visualisation of the whole of London’s transport system. The tube lines are visible with the darker areas showing the locations of the actual tube trains. These are really too small to see at this resolution as I’ve zoomed out to show all the …
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Live Singapore
Live Singapore is a project run by MIT’s Senseabl […]
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Book – Close up at a Distance
What do we see, when we see the world? In today’s world transcended by digital technology and flooded with representations, models and mashups the question of ‘what are we looking at?’ becomes more important. The many layers of data and visualisations…
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Book – Close up at a Distance
What do we see, when we see the world? In today’s world transcended by digital technology and flooded with representations, models and mashups the question of ‘what are we looking at?’ becomes more important. The many layers of data and visualisations…
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Book – Close up at a Distance
What do we see, when we see the world? In today’s world transcended by digital technology and flooded with representations, models and mashups the question of ‘what are we looking at?’ becomes more important. The many layers of data and visualisations…
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Book – Close up at a Distance
What do we see, when we see the world? In today’s world transcended by digital technology and flooded with representations, models and mashups the question of ‘what are we looking at?’ becomes more important. The many layers of data and visualisations…
Continue reading »Book – Close up at a Distance
What do we see, when we see the world? In today’s world transcended by digital technology and flooded with representations, models and mashups the question of ‘what are we looking at?’ becomes more important. The many layers of data and visualisations…
Continue reading »Animating Auckland’s Public Transport
This video, produced by Chris McDowall, shows the jour […]
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Strava Heatmap of Sports Activity
Strava, one of a number of services that walkers, runne […]
Continue reading »Crime Map of London
I was delighted to be asked to be part of the the Finan […]
Continue reading »MapTube Census 2011
The Census 2011 boundary files for the OA, LSOA and MSOA geographies have just been added to the MapTube tile server, so it’s now possible to make maps from the new Census data. The following is the first example using the population density table: MapTube showing population density (people per hectare) from the 2011 …
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Violent Crime Hotspots in London
This is an extract of a map, by Matt Ashby of the UCL S […]
Continue reading »Animating Global Innovation Diffusion- Public Transport
We know that knowledge networks and intensive competition within cities boosts innovation. There are also further scales to this dynamic. The networks and competition between cities at regional and global scales promotes the adoption of new ideas- as cities buy, borrow and adapt ideas from their competitors. It’s this latter global dynamic that we’re exploring … Continue reading →
Mapping Spanish Spending
Access to credit/ debit card data is, quite rightly, he […]
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WeareData Map of London’s Data Leakage
UbiSoft have created this compelling live map of London […]
Continue reading »Updated: Colonial Shipping Routes
One of the most popular set of maps I produced last yea […]
Continue reading »Realtime 3D Tube Trains
I’ve been working on the infrastructure to deliver real time data to a web page running WebGL for a while. The results below show locations of all tube trains in London as reported by the TfL Trackernet API. 3D visualisation of London tube trains using the Trackernet API at 14:20 on Monday 24 June 2013 …
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Geneva’s Mobile Phone Traces
This stunning animation was produced as part of the Vil […]
Continue reading »London Cycle Hire Tails
Whilst this animation, produced by Jo Wood at City Univ […]
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Where London Runs
This is a screenshot of a heatmap of runs carried out i […]
Continue reading »Mapped: London’s Fire Engine Callouts
This map shows the geography of fire engine callouts ac […]
Continue reading »Connected States of America
Mobile phone data represent one of the “Big Data& […]
Continue reading »Big Data’s Little Secrets (Part 1)
The term ‘big data’ has been getting a lot of attention recently, some of it very complimentary (see ‘The End of Theory‘), and some of it not so much (see Mark Birkin’s report on a recent AAG session). On one … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Big Data’s Little Secrets (Part 1)
The term ‘big data’ has been getting a lot of attention recently, some of it very complimentary (see ‘The End of Theory‘), and some of it not so much (see Mark Birkin’s report on a recent AAG session). On one … Continue reading →
Continue reading »What’s so Great About a World Flight Paths Map?
The stunning map depicting global flight paths produced […]
Continue reading »London in Motion
This animation, produced by Jay Gordon, does a great jo […]
Continue reading »Pigeon Sim- A fresh way to interact with urban data?
Thanks to an Xbox Kinect, Google Earth and some […]
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Subway Maps and Visualising Social Equality
Most government statistics are mapped according to offi […]
Continue reading »The Art of Data Visualisation Video
Map design and cartography are now, more than ever, see […]
Continue reading »Visualising for Human Geography
The publication of the International Benchmarking Revie […]
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The iPad Video Wall
I am happy to report that the iPad Video wall has grown up from a prototype to a fully fledged finished project. If you have been following the blog then you would have saw the prototype video of the wall’s proof of concept and watched a single movie playing over all 8 iPads. Well I’ve […]
Continue reading »Virtual Globes
It’s been very quiet over Easter and I’ve been meaning to look at 3D visualisation of geographic data for a while. The aim is to build a framework for visualising all the real-time data we have for London without using Google Earth, Bing Maps or World Wind. The reason for doing this is to build …
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Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R
Last week I ran an introductory workshop on the analysi […]
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