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Gender in urban workplaces
In my previous post I plotted a map of London’s workplace (biological) gender divisions, which demonstrated some interesting spatial patterns of gender distribution across the captial. I decided to...
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Google’s 3D London gets better
We woke this morning to find Google has made some improvements to its 3D model of London in Google Earth. All the city’s buildings are now based on 45-degree aerial imagery, which should mean a marked...
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Urban growth in Britain
CASA professor Mike Batty recently asked me to crunch some historical population data for British population centres. The starting point was some census-based data going back to 1901 that have been...
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Alluvial visualisation of time-series data
My last post included a couple of plots of UK urban population growth, one of the absolute data and one with rank orders. Someone suggested visualising both together in an alluvial plot, which ranks...
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Refugees
An appendum to yesterday’s post on time-series alluvial plots, this time looking at some data from UNHCR on refugee numbers over the past decade. Comparing the two graphs gives an idea where the...
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Changing European attitudes towards racial minorities
European attitudes towards certain minority groups are currently under much scrutiny in the wake of Israel’s recent military action in Gaza and particularly the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris two weeks...
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Mapping the accuracy of time zones
I suspect from time to time (especially in airports) many of us scratch our heads about time-zones. The choices some countries make about time don’t seem to add up, such as China’s decision to have a...
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Tate artworks
Everything’s in the titles of the graphics.. Background.. http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/11/the-dimensions-of-art.html
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Religious freedoms in OECD states
The Pew Research Center yesterday published their 2013 report on global trends in religious restrictions and hostilities. The study develops two indicators, the Government Restrictions Index (GRI) to...
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Gridded constituencies for UK Election 2015
Everyone is making UK election maps at the moment. Most of these are choropleth maps (coloured polygons), in which much of the UK (SNP revolution aside) appears as a sea of Conservative blue...
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The Solar System’s largest mountain – a Martian shield volcano the size of Italy rising 26 km above its surrounding plains, with a mean elevation of 22 km and a caldera 3 km deep. The elevation data is...
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Trends in UK political opinion polling
In light of last week’s EU Referendum shockwave I had a quick look into the polling situation. Plotting a few graphics of data from ukpollingreport.co.uk and wikipedia.org, here are the results: I...
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