When do police helicopters catch criminals? Which borough of London is the happiest? Is 'czesc' becoming a more common greeting than 'salaam'? Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti could tell you, but they'd rather show you. By combining millions of data points with stunning design, they investigate how flights stack over Heathrow, who lives longest, and where Londoners love to tweet. The result? One hundred portraits of an old city in a very new way.
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Product Description
Review
We love a good infographic, and James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti's book has some fantastic ones brimming full of great London stats (Time Out)
About the Author
Dr James Cheshire is a geographer with a passion for London and big data. His award-winning maps have appeared in the Guardian and the Financial Times as well as on his popular blog, Mapping London. James is currently a lecturer at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Oliver Uberti is a visual journalist, designer, and the recipient of many awards for his information graphics and art direction. From 2003 to 2012, he worked in the design department of National Geographic, most recently as Senior Design Editor. He has a design studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you are interested in large scale mapping, this is a must read book. 100 maps of creative mapping can help you stretch your brain muscles.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
5.0 out of 5 stars
1 review
5.0 out of 5 stars
From coffee table to scientific salon, a worthy offering
4 Nov 2014
By Robert David STEELE Vivas
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This is a spectacular offering on multiple fronts. On the low-end, it has got to be the coolest coffee table book around, something that could be usefully offered in every waiting room across London -- and hopefully inspire copycats for other cities including Paris and New York and Dubai.
At the high end, the book offers the most current available understanding of just what can be gleaned from "big data" that is available from open databases -- one can only imagine the additional value to be had from closed data bases (money movement, for example). And of course we have to persist in our demands that all data and the software and hardware needed to process the data be open source so that it is affordable, interoperable, and scalable.
To evaluate the book, look online for the following article that provides a series of extracted color maps along with textual information that in my view help make the purchasing decision here, for those that can afford to buy another book, quite easy:
< These Maps Visualize London's 2.4 Billion Bus Journeys In A Whole New Way >
Here are some other data visualization books that I find quite inspiring:
Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem: International Symposium, GRMSE 2013, Wuhan, China, November 8-10, 2013, Proceedings, ... in Computer and Information Science)
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Designing Data Visualizations: Representing Informational Relationships
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
A History of the World in 12 Maps
A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design
Cartography: Visualization of Geospatial Data
Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring
Best wishes to all,
Robert David STEELE Vivas
INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability
At the high end, the book offers the most current available understanding of just what can be gleaned from "big data" that is available from open databases -- one can only imagine the additional value to be had from closed data bases (money movement, for example). And of course we have to persist in our demands that all data and the software and hardware needed to process the data be open source so that it is affordable, interoperable, and scalable.
To evaluate the book, look online for the following article that provides a series of extracted color maps along with textual information that in my view help make the purchasing decision here, for those that can afford to buy another book, quite easy:
< These Maps Visualize London's 2.4 Billion Bus Journeys In A Whole New Way >
Here are some other data visualization books that I find quite inspiring:
Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem: International Symposium, GRMSE 2013, Wuhan, China, November 8-10, 2013, Proceedings, ... in Computer and Information Science)
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Designing Data Visualizations: Representing Informational Relationships
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
A History of the World in 12 Maps
A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design
Cartography: Visualization of Geospatial Data
Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring
Best wishes to all,
Robert David STEELE Vivas
INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability
›
Go to Amazon.com to see the review
5.0 out of 5 stars
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
New customer? Start here.
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
