Blog
Things that have come rushing from my pen as if it were a firehose, and as if the words were water
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Já’s new map: switching from raster to vector
Maps
In a talk I gave to LÍSA, the Icelandic association for geographic information, I argue that we need to think about maps as software now
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‘It astounds me to be able to look at a map and know to the square metre where my buttocks are deployed’
Blog
How do traditional paper maps compare to today’s digital maps?
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Price of .org domains has risen by 3% annually, far below 10% price cap
Blog
The wholesale price of a .org domain could have risen 10% a year since 2003, increasing from $6 then to over $27 now. But in reality the price has risen by an average of only 3% annually. Now price caps have been lifted, what will happen next?
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What if it were our city?
Maps
What impact would the Fat Man atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, have on modern-day Reykjavík?
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Which planet is closest to Earth?
Visualisations
The BBC’s Sky at Night programme said our nearest neighbour is Mars but one viewer disagreed. Was he right? Let’s find the answer using Python and R
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The rise and fall in support for British political parties
Visualisations
How the distribution of the popular vote has been shared between Britain’s main political parties since the 1950s
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2017 in review
Annual reviews
A look back at last year’s books, podcasts, video games, and more
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