Tag: Flow map

• Who is your town twinned with?

  

  I drew all 29,437 twin town and sister city links on Wikidata as arcs on one map: a post-war European habit that peaked in 1990, reached across the Iron Curtain and out to Japan and China, and lost dozens of Russian links after 2022.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Europe, Flow map, Government, Place search, Town twinning, Twentieth century, Wikidata, World

• Where would you go to university?

  

  Every country coloured by where its students most often go to university abroad, 1999 to 2023. Old empires still show through, Turkey has become a magnet, and India has overtaken China in Britain.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Education, Empire and colonialism, Flow map, Migration, population, Present day, World

• There and Back Again: 2,500 years of great journeys, and how sure we are that they happened

  

  I mapped 43 great journeys from about 600 BC to 1947, out and back, and graded each by its evidence. 18 are proven and 7 are legends, and 11 of the 12 journeys after 1450 are proven against 7 of the 31 before.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Data bias, Exploration, Flow map, history, Long view, Wikipedia, World, world maps

• Far from home: where the Victoria Cross was won

  

  Every Victoria Cross has two places: where the recipient was born and where the deed was done. I mapped both for 1,357 awards and measured the distance between them.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Birthplaces, Empire and colonialism, Famous people, Flow map, history, Military history, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian, war, World, world maps