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Digital Cities At New London Architecture
A new exhibition at NLA looks at the way computer visualisation is assisting architects and city planners in London. Highlights include Terry Farrell’s mindmapping of the built environment, the...
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Tube Trains Mapped In Real Time
This nifty little visualisation from Matthew Somerville shows every Tube train moving along in (something very close to) real time. (Note, image above is static – click through for the real thing.)...
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‘Dimensions’ Plots Newsy Objects On London
How much space would the Pentagon take up if, for some absurd reason, it had been built in Trafalgar Square? How about the Giza pyramids? Or Stonehenge? Or even a deep sea trawler net? And did you...
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Foursquare Data Hints At London’s Cultural Hubs
Another day, another intriguing visualisation of social data. PhD student Anil Bawa-Cavia has used check-in data from the Foursquare network to gauge London’s most popular venues. Foursquare, for...
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All Of London’s Murders…Mapped
A new site is compiling data on every reported murder in the capital’s history, and then mapping the results. Murder Map will eventually bring together the incredible archives of the Old Bailey with...
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A Map Of London’s Commonest Surnames
As feats of data visualisation go, they don’t come much more compelling than this. James Cheshire (@spatialanalysis) has built a map of London’s commonest surnames by area, using data from the 2001...
View ArticleVisualisation: The Ebb And Flow Of London’s Public Transport
We probably flag up the work of UCL’s Centre or Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) a little more regularly than unbiased editorial would dictate but, heck, they’re just so damn creative. This latest...
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Map: London’s Foursquare Data, Visualised
Click to see full map Stuart Robinson has made use of Foursquare checkin data to produce this interactive visualisation showing where Londoners eat, drink and shop. Click on the image above or on this...
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A Map Of London’s Fire Engine Callouts
Click on image for full-size version James Cheshire of UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has made the above map, depicting London’s fire engine callouts between January and December, 2011. The...
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A 3-D Tube Visualisation With Moving Trains
Click for interactive version. Remember the tube map with almost-real-time train movements? Visual developer Bruno Imbrizi has gone one dimension better. Using a combo of station depth information,...
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Luminocity: New Site Maps London’s Demographics
We’ve seen plenty of demographic visualisations before, but Luminocity keeps things simple and easy to interpret. What’s more, it looks all fancypants with its mulberry, fuchsia and violet hues. The...
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Beautiful Science At The British Library
Information is beautiful, exhorted David McCandless in his bestselling book of the same name. Visualisations are hugely popular these days. The Guardian has a whole section devoted to data journalism....
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Which Bits Of London Are Most Photographed?
Looking like satellite images of the capital at night, the graphics above actually show the places that people take photographs in London. Alex Kachkaev and Jo Wood, of the giCentre at City University...
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