Cartograms
Last week the BBC News Magazine featured an article on cartograms. The cartograms were produced by the University of Sheffield’s Geography Department and originally published on their Worldmapper...
View ArticleSurname Diversity in Great Britain
As part of my PhD research I recently produced the map below (high res. version) that shows the diversity of surnames in Great Britain. I wanted to demonstrate that surname diversity is not uniform...
View Article2010 Muslim Populations By Country
Using the release of the “Muslim Populations By Country” dataset from the Guardian Datastore I have produced a cartogram to visualise the data. The size of the country represents its 2010 Muslim...
View ArticleFlattening the Earth
Flattening the Earth so that it can be easily drawn on a 2-dimensional surface is complicated. Over many years map projections have been developed to aid in this process, but they can only really...
View ArticleMapping GCSE Scores
In the UK, August is exam results month for 16-18 year olds. Every year, photos of leaping teenagers clutching their results are accompanied by reports of record attainment rates, debates around how...
View ArticleWhere is the R Activity?
R has become one of the world’s most widely used statistics and visualisation software packages with an ever growing user community. Thanks to the release of log files containing all hits to...
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