DataShine: Census
DataShine: Census is the first product of BODMAS’s DataShine toolkit. We have taken the Quick Statistics aggregate tables, released for the 2011 Census by the Office of National Statistics. We are...
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London Houseshares
London is a significant destination for many people at various lifestages. One particularly popular inflow is university graduates looking for a place to live as they start their first career-minded...
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Cycling to Work
Cycling to work is on the increase but is at very low levels in most places in the UK – and there are very wide variations, even across towns and cities of similar size. Bristol (above) and London both...
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Holiday Homes?
The south-west is known as a place where there are many second homes. In some villages, so many of the homes are empty for much of the year, or are simply holiday homes, that living there can seem...
View ArticlePro-Tip: Specifying your own Colour Ramp
DataShine: Census uses ColorBrewer for its colours ramps. There are six ramps provided by default, which can be selected at the bottom of the website – five sequential ones and one diverging one, which...
View ArticleHealth in Merseyside
This map shows the proportion of people that consider themselves to be in very good health, in the Liverpool and Wirral area. By using a diverging colour scheme, it shows there are stark differences...
View ArticleAtheists of England/Wales
This is a more zoomed-out map, showing how the proportion of people stating they had no religion, varies around the the country. I’m using a ColorBrewer diverging colour ramp “BrBG” which diverges...
View ArticleDataShine Website updates
DataShine has been out for around a week now, and we’ve made some changes to fix small bugs. Specifically: DataShine should work much better in Internet Explorer 9 now, as we now prompt this browser to...
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Labels!
The labels that appear on the map add some context, and help you find out where you are, but we realise that sometimes these labels can be less than helpful, and can obscure the data. With this in...
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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...
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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...
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Local Area Rescaling and Data Download
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...
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How do England & Wales Stay Warm?
One of the more spatially interesting datasets on DataShine: Census is about central heating – do houses have it, and what is the fuel source? The table is QS415EW and here’s what one of the...
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OpenLayers 3
This post is cross-posted from oobrien.com. OpenLayers is a powerful web mapping API that DataShine uses to display full-page “slippy” maps. DataShine: Census has recently been upgraded to use...
View ArticleDataShine and GeoJSON
A recent addition to DataShine’s functionality is the ability to drag and drop geoJSON (and KML) files onto the web map. This video tutorial shows how you can use the excellent geoJSON.io website to...
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DataShine Election
The latest web map in the DataShine website portfolio is DataShine Election, which shows results from the 2015 and 2010 UK General Elections. You can view the interactive map or read more about it.
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Announcing DataShine Scotland
We are delighted to announce the launch of DataShine Scotland! Using data from Scotland’s Census 2011, we have mapped over 1000 metrics (covering 70 topics) for Scotland’s 46,351 census output areas....
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Extra Detail in DataShine Commute
We’ve made three changes to the DataShine Commute websites: For DataShine Scotland Commute we have made use of a new table, WU03BSC_IZ2011_Scotland, published recently on the Scotland’s Census...
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Demographics of the Borders Railway
The Borders Railway opened last week – a 30 mile new railway running between Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders, which was for the last fifty years the largest populated region in the UK without a...
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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...
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