The process of planning a travel route is intrinsically linked with mapping and cartography, and it has become easier than ever with the advent of web mapping services such as Google or Bing… Read More
Most of my recent studies on the CASA MRes course have involved constructing, implementing and testing Agent-Based Models (ABMs) in Processing. Modelling approaches to spatial analysis are widespread, and are often used to… Read More
Some fantastic modelling and cartographic work here from the Modi Research Group at Columbia University. Click to open the interactive, MapBox-powered visualisation (embedding not supported in WordPress). NYC energy consumption, modelled in this… Read More
The data visualisation community is, by and large, a very open collective that promotes the sharing of ideas and processes. In keeping with this, I have decided to briefly detail the sources of… Read More
In this video, all 17,761 Barclays Cycle Hire journeys on the 29th April 2011 are visualised across London. Click “HD” to watch it full-size on Vimeo. The animation was produced in Processing (also… Read More
Our focus on the MRes course has been more interactive this term, using Processing to visualise complex datasets such as London bike hire flows and geolocated twitter data. To keep my cartographic skills sharp,… Read More
Producing a good data visualisation – or any design piece – is an iterative process, involving reflection, reworking and changing perspectives. With that in mind, I have been playing around with the twitter… Read More
Chartwell is an amazing typographic tool from TK Type for creating charts and graphics. It utilises OpenType to transform a short string of text and numbers into Bar, Pie and Line charts, all… Read More
Inspired by a recent lecture from Fabian Neuhaus (UrbanTick), I have taken a week-long sample of around 20k geotagged tweets from London and produced a week/weekend temporal visualisation. It shows tweet volume per… Read More
AntiMap is a collection of tools for collecting, processing and visualising personal movement data. It was created by Trent Brooks (@trentbrooks), a media artist from Sydney who (like many of us) sees himself… Read More
