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Comment on NYC’s Bike Share Approaches by Sponsored Space

Sponsored Space — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:17:40 +0000

[...] This process is not new- corporations have been building places to express their brands for a long time. Disneyland is perhaps the most famous example, and arguably the original UK new towns like Cadbury’s Bournville shared some of the same ideals. Many useful projects would simply not happen without corporate sponsorship, such as the popular (but loss-making) Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London, soon to be mimicked with Citi-Bike in New York. [...]

Comment on Papers by Oliver O`Brien

Oliver O`Brien — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:11:23 +0000

I don’t believe so but I’ll check.

Comment on Papers by mike batty

mike batty — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:59:00 +0000

i thought you had a paper with alan wilson

Comment on The London Data Table by Jon Warbrick

Jon Warbrick — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:41:50 +0000

It’s occurred to me that you’ve really created a camera obscura, except that rather than looking out over a city (or whatever) yours looks out over the Internet…

Jon.

Comment on On Colour Ramps and City Dashboards by Richard Treves

Richard Treves — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:27:58 +0000

p.s., I should also say I’ve been using your Boris bikes maps to show students as examples of good map design using open data and I really like city dashboard (as a Londoner myself…)

Comment on On Colour Ramps and City Dashboards by Richard Treves

Richard Treves — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:23:48 +0000

Ollie,

Your blends aren’t very good for the most common forms of colour blindness (check out color oracle, freeware). I’d be looking at blends of blues to yellows which are generally much safer.

Rich

Comment on Reworking Booth: Geodemographics of Housing by Pools and red and green | things magazine

Pools and red and green | things magazine — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:21:28 +0000

[...] Reworking Booth: Geodemographics of Housing, Oliver O’Brien on creating a modern equivalent of the poverty map: Geodemographics of [...]

Comment on Reworking Booth: Geodemographics of Housing by Michael Edwards

Michael Edwards — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:07:11 +0000

I’m not expert enough for this but impressed by the results and the care you took. But Isn’t there also a weakness in the IMD because it aims to capture the presence / scale of (each dimension of) deprivation but, as a result, pays no attention to who the rest of the people in the zone are. So the Cleaver Square / Holland Gardens problems people have commented on don’t actually flow from averaging but from something else. I rae about this snag somewhere but can’t recall…. Michael (UCL Bartlett)

Comment on Tube Colours by Gregory Marler

Gregory Marler — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:24:05 +0000

When used on a map, the similar colours (Victoria and DLR) don’t seem to matter that much because of their location. When listed, the colours are normally accompanied by text anyway (good practice for colour blind people!). I think the order they’re in when listed vertically has almost become familiar to me as much as the colours.

Comment on Reworking Booth: Geodemographics of Housing by Building Blocks and MOSAIC Tiles | The Pattersonian

Building Blocks and MOSAIC Tiles | The Pattersonian — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:51:47 +0000

[...] map of WhitechapelA few weeks ago I spotted Oliver O’Brien had blogged about using Booth style maps to present spatial data in a more user friendly way 1. An example of this style of map is shown to the [...]