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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Making a high-resolution 3D map of the Geldingadalsgos volcanic eruption
Maps
Open data and open-source tools combine to make a detailed model of Iceland’s newest land
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How do Covid cases in Iceland compare to Britain?
Data
Looking at the seven-day rolling rate of new cases per 100,000 population in Iceland and the United Kingdom
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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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