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Griðastaður – Að taka hlé 20 Aug 2013 | 04:55 pm
With this gridded cartogram of remote areas in Iceland this website retreats into hibernation mode. The map is created using the approach described in the book Rediscovering the World and also summari...
Changing Views of the World 12 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
The mental map of the world though the eyes of Guardian Online readers in recent years may look a little bit like the following cartogram adding up the distribution of all online news items in the per...
Not as patchy as it looks: Higher education institutions in the UK 9 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Despite the apparently inequitable clustering of universities in certain hot spots across the UK, the correlation between where people study and the distribution of the general population is surprisin...
Everything’s Changing: A World of News 5 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
This is a map series visualising a comprehensive data set kindly provided to me on request by the editors of the Guardian Data Blog a couple of months ago (special thanks to Peter Martin and Grant Klo...
World Lightning: Where the thunders strike 22 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
Time again to talk about the weather: Britain is suffering under heatwave conditions (also known as summer in other parts of the world), with the ongoing high temperatures and developing clouds going ...
European Agricultural Spending 1 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
The EU27 is history, with Croatia becoming the 28th member state of the European Union today. On last week’s European Council meeting, the ‘old’ members had other issues in mind, as the common agricul...
7 Billion and beyond 18 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
Predicting future population chances remains a difficult issue. But while popular (and populist) media tends to dramatise every new release of population predictions, it is less often discussed that t...
The Human Planet: A modern Mappa Mundi 3 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
“A mappa mundi [...] is any medieval European map of the world. [...] To modern eyes, mappae mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, mappae mundi were never meant to be used as...
In Focus: The World’s Billionaires 13 May 2013 | 09:00 am
In an article for the “In Focus” section of Political Insight (April 2013, Volume 4, Issue 1) Danny Dorling and I looked at the global geography of wealth. The map that I created for this feature disp...
The Space of Climate Change 22 Apr 2013 | 09:00 am
In the face of unprecendented occurences of extreme weather, loss of species, and pollution, it is clear that climate change is affecting our planet. We cannot afford to wait any longer to act. This q...
