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Countries as Elements - The Philippines

The Longest Countries Made of Elements

Posted on 31st May 20171st June 2017 by meiotic

My pub quiz team have started setting a quiz each week to keep us in good form, with one person selecting questions for the others each week. For my last turn (full quiz here, if

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UK Wind Data – TIFFs (free)

Posted on 8th December 20168th December 2016 by meiotic

It’s very hard to get decent observed wind data for the UK (and most countries, I imagine), so I was intrigued when I found a 1km resolution database of wind data freely available online. You

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Wednesday Wanders - animated journeys

Animating Journeys as Maps

Posted on 2nd December 20163rd December 2016 by meiotic

Over a few years going on Wednesday Wanders, I’ve collated quite a lot of data on walking routes in and around Edinburgh. In some cases this is time-stamped GPS data taken from the walk, otherwise

Tagged analysis, data, GIS, maps, wanders 4 Comments

Mexican Hexagons! Heat mapping Vienna and more..

Posted on 9th May 201525th May 2015 by meiotic

Isn’t it amazing how much Mexico looks in no way like north-eastern Austria? But Mexico is hot, and here we’re taking a look at heat mapping.. Having recently seen demos on both hexagonal heat maps and the Qgis2threejs

Tagged data, GIS, open data, QGIS, visualisation 1 Comment

Doughnuts and Dots: Chartin’ & Graphin’

Posted on 6th May 201523rd May 2015 by meiotic

OK, I’m trying to make this topic sound fun.. but there’s only so many ways you can spin online charting libraries.. but if they make delicious donuts and colourful dots, then I might have a

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I'm Phil. I live & work in Edinburgh, Scotland. I spend my work time being an Environmental Data Scientist and tweeting about @ScienceAndMaps. I like to cut loose in the Hebrides and am trying to learn the lingo too. I recently passed on the mantle of running the Southside Whisky Club, although I still dabble in the odd whisky expirent with Maltiply and tweet occasionally there too. My research can be further explored on my Research Gate & GitHub, with more visual stuff running on my open source geospatial server, Contours. I carved a spoon and I liked it.