is a Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL
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09.01.10The Surname Regions of Great BritainThe British Population retains a strong sense of regional identity, epitomized by periodic campaigns for Scottish and Welsh devolution, or for Cornish self-government. There have been few studies into the regionalization of British surnames and none that utilize any register that can claim to be nationally representative. The National Social Map presented in this paper is the first comprehensive attempt to create a regional geography of Great Britain based upon the clustering of surnames. The resulting map illustrates a strong relationship between the population’s surnames and geographic location. The homogeneity within each of the surname regions identified is striking given ...
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04.11.10NYC Cab Flow DataNYC Yellow Cabs have GPS fitted to them which have been tracked for the past year or so... anyway, there is an excellent article on this in the New York Times with obligatory map visualization: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/nyregion/03icab.html map (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/02/nyregion/taxi-map.html?ref=nyregion) If we assume that taxi are the generally present in areas where people are, this could be a useful source of population mobility and certainly the sort of data which may be useful in real-time geodemographics.
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04.27.09Understanding Swine Flu?New York Times have just put up a map of swine flu, I am not sure that it really shows anything! Quite bad cartography from people who usually know better.
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04.27.09Flu MapView H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map
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