Fabrikant et al. (2002) The First Law of Cognitive Geography: Distance and Similarity in Semantic Space
Sara Fabrikant and colleagues define the first law of cognitive geography.
Tobler (1970) A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region
Tobler's famous description of the "first law of geography" as he presents creative task driven, technology and data enabled, cartography.
Forrest (2015) Fifty Years of Cartography at the University of Glasgow
A recent paper that reflects on the work of cartographers at the University of Glasgow and included the 100-year old exam paper.
Dykes et al. (2010) Rethinking map legends with visualization
Our work on legend visualization explores some of the ways in which spatial, aspatial and partially spatial graphics can be informative.
Jo Wood (2011) Experiments in Bicycle Flow Animation
Jo Wood plays with data on journeys made through the London cycle hire scheme to look at the effects of cartographic decisions on the structures that are revealed.
Kachkaev et al. (2014) Glyphs for exploring crowd-sourced subjective survey classification
Alex Kachkaev's work on Survey Glyphs resulted in a best paper award at EuroVIS.
Alex Kachkaev (2014) Glyphs for exploring crowd-sourced subjective survey classification
The photo-assessment video in which survey glyphs are introduced.
Alex Kachkaev (2014) Photo Content Assessment Results (read only)
Try the photo-assessment software that uses survey glyphs.
Cleveland & McGill (1984) Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods
Framed rectangle charts are suggested in Cleveland & McGill's classic paper.
Wood et al. (2011) Visualizing the dynamics of London's bicycle hire scheme
Jo Wood's interactive abstract map of the current status of the London Cycle Scheme is described in a 2011 paper.
Jo Wood (2011) BikeGrid
You can try the BikeGrid here. M for map and G for grid!
Slingsby et al. (2014) Designing an Exploratory Visual Interface to the Results of Citizen Surveys
The PlaceSurvey design and process are described here.
Slingsby et al. (2010) Rectangular Hierarchical Cartograms for Socio-Economic Data.
The map of the census using the spatial tree map algorithm.
Wood & Dykes (2008) Spatially Ordered Treemaps
Our paper on adding geography to treemaps.
Wood et al. (2011) BallotMaps: Detecting Name Bias in Alphabetically Ordered Ballot Papers
Details on the BallotMaps design and analysis.
Slingsby et al. (2009) Configuring hierarchical layouts to address research questions
The HiVE notation for describing hierarchical graphics according to hierarchy, order, size, colour and layout is described in this paper with examples.
Goodwin et al. (2015) Visualizing Multiple Variables Across Scale and Geography
Scale mosaics and other hierarchical graphics for looking at variations in correlation with scale and geography are described here.
After the Flood London Squared Map
After the Flood's beautiful layout for London's boroughs.
van Goethem et al. (2014) Exploring Curved Schematization
Jo's work with colleagues at TU Eindhoven on curved schematization was rewarded with a Pacific VIS Best Paper prize.
Wood et al. (2012) Sketchy rendering for information visualization
The sketchy algorithm and description of the experiments undertaken to establish effect.
Seb Meier (2015) d3.layout.odmap
Seb Meier's D3 implementation of the ODmap layout, produced during a productive giCentre internship!
Seb Meier (2015) d3.sketchy
Jo's handy library has been ported to D3 by Seb Meier.
Lloyd & Dykes (2011) Human-Centered Approaches in Geovisualization Design: Investigating Multiple Methods Through a Long-Term Case Study
Our early experiments in using Human Centred Design in geovisualization - with reflections and recommendations.
Goodwin et al. (2013) Creative User-Centered Visualization Design for Energy Analysts and Modelers
Work in which we developed prototype designs through an approach that involved explicit use of techniques to stimulate creativity.