Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md8m5npQbr1qz4vjro3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md8m5npQbr1qz4vjro1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md8m5npQbr1qz4vjro2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>The Guardian’s state level election maps (for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-elections-2012/results/mississippi">Mississippi</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-elections-2012/results/california">California</a>, and <a>New York</a>) used height to show the population (making it clear why, for example, the inland parts of California didn’t stop the state going to Obama 60% to 40%).</p> <p>I’m a little surprised they didn’t take the same approach to the electoral college map; that would have been interesting to see.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/35353941368http://notes.husk.org/post/35353941368Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:30:08 +0000imageimagesus electionelectionmapresultsdiagrampopulation<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ysb0FsRm1qz4vjro1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Census classifications<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ysb0FsRm1qz4vjro2_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Violence against the person<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ysb0FsRm1qz4vjro3_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Travelcard zones<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ysb0FsRm1qz4vjro4_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Welsh population, output area level<br/><br/> <p>Four of the many, many different map overlays at the <a href="http://www.londonprofiler.org/">London Profiler</a> site. Sadly the data is a little out of date (it looks like it hasn’t been updated since around 2008; I first <a href="http://thingsmagazine.tumblr.com/post/153538588/london-profiler" title="thanks to things magazine">saw it in 2009</a>), but it’s still fun to play with for a while.</p> <p>(The images are captioned, but if you’re really curious about what’s displayed, I’d urge you to check out the <a href="http://www.londonprofiler.org/">maps in full</a>.)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/21700701494http://notes.husk.org/post/21700701494Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:48:43 +0100imageimagesmapmapslondonpopulationcensusclassificationdatavisualisation<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFknxzrsybeDdu2aKKo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.spatial.doc/csbgeo22.html">DB2 Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows</a> - Voronoi cell structures</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/113182362http://notes.husk.org/post/113182362Tue, 26 May 2009 11:10:00 +0100imagevoronoiworldmappopulation