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BODMAS

DataShine Wins the BCS Avenza Award for Electronic Mapping

DataShine Census has won the British Cartography Society’s Avenza Award for Electronic Mapping, for 2015. The glass trophy and certificate were presented to DataShine creator Oliver O’Brien at the award ceremony and gala dinner for the combined BCS/Society of Cartographers conference “Mapping Together” which took place in York, earlier this September. The prize was presented […]

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BODMAS OpenLayers Technical

OpenLayers 3 and DataShine

OpenLayers is a powerful web mapping API that many of my websites use to display full-page “slippy” maps. DataShine: Census has been upgraded to use OpenLayers 3. Previously it was powered by OpenLayers 2, so it doesn’t sound like a major change, but OL3 is a major rewrite and as such it was quite an […]

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BODMAS

DataShine: Local Area Rescaling & Data Download

Cross-posted from the Datashine Blog. DataShine Census has two new features – local area rescaling and data download. The features were launched at the UK Data Service‘s Census Research User Conference, last week at the Royal Statistical Society. Local Area Rescaling This helps draw out demographic versions in the current view. You may be in […]

DataShine & CDRC

The DataShine project (P.I. Dr James Cheshire) was my primary, ESRC funded research project from 2013-15, and with some of its work being carried on in 2015-16. DataShine has a dedicated blog, here. Here is a summary of all the DataShine websites. CDRC Maps is the successor project to DataShine and used some of its […]

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BODMAS Geodemographics

DataShine: 2011 OAC

The 2011 Area Classification for Output Areas, or 2011 OAC, is a geodemographic classification that was developed by Dr Chris Gale during his Ph.D at UCL Geography over the last few years, in close conjunction with the Office for National Statistics, who have endorsed it and adopted it as their official classification and who collected […]

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BODMAS OpenLayers

DataShine Travel to Work Flows

Today, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have released the Travel to Work Flows based on the 2011 census. These are a giant origin-destination matrix of where people commute to work. There are various tables that have been released. I’ve chosen the Method of Travel to Work and visualised the flows, for England and Wales, […]

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BODMAS Geodemographics

Introducing DataShine

This week, James and I launch DataShine: Census. This is part of the ESRC BODMAS project, here at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, that is led by James, and which started at the beginning of this year. DataShine: Census shows web maps of the Quick Statistics aggregate tables of Census data for England/Wales for […]

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CDRC Geodemographics

Introducing Mapmaker

I’ve been based at the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre, a multi-university (UCL/Liverpool/Leeds/Oxford) lab focused on research and provision of specialist UK consumer datasets, since 2015. One of my first outputs was to adapt DataShine, which I’d created in 2013 as part of a previous UCL project, to produce CDRC Maps – to map some […]

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Bike Share Conferences

A Glimpse of the Future in Paris

I was in Paris just before Christmas, taking part in a workshop at IFSSTAR (Université Paris-Est) on innovations in flow visualisation – GFlowiz. I talked/demonstrated some old and new ways that I and others have shown commute journeys in the UK on the web, looking both at The Great British Bike to Work and TubeCreature […]

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Bike Share London

Future Transport Report and Bikeshare in London

The GLA published an interesting report last week: Future transport – How is London responding to technological innovation. It focused mainly on drones, driverless cars and app-based services (as an example, CityMapper’s experimenting on turning its huge desire-line dataset, created from the data of its millions of users and their journeys, into a group-based taxishare […]