Different Maps, Same Data
The maps above were created for an article in The Conversation entitled Next slide please: data visualisation expert on what’s wrong with the UK government’s co...
Category: Resources
Mapping Nitrogen Dioxide Across Europe
Here is a short video I did for the Royal Geographical Society to show how new satellite data can reveal the daily changes to nitrogen dioxide (and other pollut...
Maptastic: How map makers will win the 2020 US election
Here’s a video I filmed with the Financial Times to help explain the importance of gerrymandering to the outcomes of elections.
Map Projections
I’ve just discovered this really lovely graphic detailing a number of different map projections. It’s taken from the opening pages of the “Oxf...
Joy Division, Population Surfaces and Pioneering Electronic Cartography
There has been a resurgence of interest in data visualizations inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover. These so-called “Joy Plots&...
Roger Tomlinson's PhD: The first in GIS
The late Roger Tomlinson is considered the “Father of Geographic Information Systems” and he completed his PhD in the UCL Department of Geography in 1974. Tomli...
Population Lines: How and Why I Created It
Thanks to the power of Reddit the “Population Lines” print (buy here) I created back in 2013 has attracted a huge amount of interest in the past wee...
10 Million Dots: Mapping European Population
Creating a giant dot density map using R.
Useful Geographic Datasets
There’s more data out there than ever before and I’m keen for students and researchers to make full use of it. Here are a number of my “go to&...
7 Deadly Sins of (Academic) Data Visualisation
I was recently asked to deliver a days training on scientific data visualisation. I spent a while scanning through papers to pull out what I see as the “7...