James Cheshire
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3751796 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Cheshire |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Cheshire |
| FIRMA | CHESHIRE J |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4552-5989 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 116 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Challenges and opportunities for using data visualisation to communicate geographic health inequalities
Those who produce and share research on geographic health inequalities face calls to communicate evidence more effectively to various audiences, including the public and policymakers. Data visualisation is a key tool available to these communicators, but little is known about how they approach this in practice or how existing visualisation guidance aligns with real-world constraints. Through 20 semi-structured interviews with these communicators …
Cartography in Clay
Revealing the geography of food (in)accessibility for nighttime workers in the Greater London Area
The lived experiences of those who work at night have been subject to increased attention from both scholars and policy makers; however, there remains limited geospatial and quantitative evidence on the challenges they face and how these unfold across space and time. This gap is most evident in the continued dependence on “daytime” data and assumptions, that presume the traditional “9–5” working day, at the expense of the specific needs of night …
The Regionalization and Aggregation of In‐App Location Data to Maximize Information and Minimize Data Disclosure
To minimize the disclosure of personal information, sensitive location data collected by mobile phones is often aggregated to predefined geographic units and presented as counts of devices at a given time. The use of grids or units created by statistical agencies for the dissemination of traditional data sets—such as censuses—are common choices for this aggregation process. However, these can result in large variations in the number of devices en…
Creating the London night-worker geodemographic classification
This paper aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the geography of night working in London (United Kingdom). Around a quarter of London’s workforce is employed in the evening and night-time economy, working between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am. Compared to daytime workers, there is limited public information on where these workers are located, how they travel, and what amenities they rely on during work hours. To address this gap, we…
Do personal narratives make thematic maps more persuasive? Integrating concrete examples into maps of the social determinants of health
Thematic maps about social inequalities can engage audiences, add context to policy debates, and change attitudes toward the issues. The field of communication has long compared the relative persuasiveness of this kind of abstract data versus concrete examples about individuals. While studies have compared the effectiveness of presenting both types of information alongside each other, the line between them is sometimes blurred in data visualizati…
The joy of maps
This short provocation implores more academic geographers to embrace the joy of making maps and to take pride in the links that maps have with the subject. It contends that, despite geography and maps being synonymous in the eyes of many (and most importantly, the public at large), geographers' narrow conception of what maps have been, rather than what they can be, is a missed opportunity in the expression of the discipline as it exists today
Harnessing mobility data to capture changing work from home behaviours between censuses
This paper provides an analysis of working from home patterns in England using data from the 2021 Census to understand (1) how patterns of working from home (WFH) in England have shifted since the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) whether human mobility indicators, specifically Google Community Mobility Reports, provide a reliable proxy for WFH patterns recorded by the 2021 Census, providing a formal evaluation of the reliability of such datasets, whose …
Spatial and social disparities in the decline of activities during the Covid-19 lockdown in Greater London
We use data on human mobility obtained from mobile applications to explore the activity patterns in the neighbourhoods of Greater London as they emerged from the first wave of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions during summer 2020 and analyse how the lockdown guidelines have exposed the socio-spatial fragmentation between urban communities. The location data are spatially aggregated to 1 km 2 grids and cross-checked against publicly available mobility…
Assessing the impacts of Airbnb listings on London house prices
Over the course of the last decade, sharing economy platforms have experienced significant growth within cities around the world. Airbnb, which is one of the largest and best-known platforms, provides the focus for this paper and offers a service that allows users to rent properties or spare rooms to guests. Its rapid growth has led to a growing discourse around the consequences of Airbnb rentals within the local context. The research within this…
Assessing the Spatial Concentration of Urban Crime
Using Wi-Fi probe requests from mobile phones to quantify the impact of pedestrian flows on retail turnover
A global comparison of bicycle sharing systems
Assessing the impacts of various street-level characteristics on the burden of urban burglary in Kaduna, Nigeria
Testing Theories of Social Disorganization in Nigeria
This chapter focuses on the social disorganization approach to understanding variations in area-level rates of crime. It first provides context through a brief description of the study area, Badarawa-Malali, an urban district in the city of Kaduna, Nigeria (Section 17.2). Section 17.3 provides a review of the different components of social disorganization theory, the mechanisms through which they are believed to operate, how they have been estima…
Challenges to representing the population from new forms of consumer data
A large share of human activity is now routinely captured and stored by commercial organisations as consumer data. These new forms of data have provided many new and exciting opportunities for understanding population trends at fine spatial scales. In many settings, they have reduced our dependence on theory and traditional modelling approaches and fundamentally changed how geographers approach producing representations of the population. However…
Interactive mapping for large, open demographic data sets using familiar geographical features
Ever-increasing numbers of large demographic data sets are becoming available. Many of these data sets are provided as open data, but are in basic repositories where it is incumbent on the user to generate their own visualisations and analysis in order to garner insights. In a bid to facilitate the use and exploration of such data sets, we have created a web mapping platform called DataShine. We link data from the 2011 Census for England and Wale…
Regional surnames and genetic structure in Great Britain
Following the increasing availability of DNA-sequenced data, the genetic structure of populations can now be inferred and studied in unprecedented detail. Across social science, this innovation is shaping new bio-social research agendas, attracting substantial investment in the collection of genetic, biological and social data for large population samples. Yet genetic samples are special because the precise populations that they represent are unc…
Japanese surname regions
Inequalities in the London bicycle sharing system revisited
Mining bicycle sharing data for generating insights into sustainable transport systems
OP21 Modelled Health Impacts of the London Cycle Hire Scheme
Background Bicycle sharing systems are being implemented in many cities worldwide, but have received little robust evaluation. We modelled the impacts of the London cycle hire scheme (LCH) upon the health of its users. Methods Data sources included total-population operational registration and usage data for LCH (April 2011-March 2012); surveys of LCH users (2011); and London data on travel, physical activity, road traffic collisions and PM2.5 ai…
The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor
A recent workshop entitled "The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods" was held in Paris in December 2010, sponsored by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and by the journal Human Biology. This workshop was intended to foster a debate on questions related to the family names and to compare different multidisciplinary approaches involving geneticists, historians, geographers, so…
Creating a regional geography of Britain through the spatial analysis of surnames
Atlas of Finance
10.1080/2325548X.2025.2539496
Mining bicycle sharing data for generating insights into sustainable transport systems
The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor
A recent workshop entitled "The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods" was held in Paris in December 2010, sponsored by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and by the journal Human Biology. This workshop was intended to foster a debate on questions related to the family names and to compare different multidisciplinary approaches involving geneticists, historians, geographers, so…
Creating a regional geography of Britain through the spatial analysis of surnames
Inequalities in the London bicycle sharing system revisited
Delineating Europe's Cultural Regions
Surnames (family names) show distinctive geographical patterning and in many disciplines remain an underutilized source of information about population origins, migration and identity. This paper investigates the geographical structure of surnames, using a unique individual level database assembled from registers and telephone directories from 16 European countries. We develop a novel combination of methods for exhaustively analyzing this multina…
Spatial and social disparities in the decline of activities during the Covid-19 lockdown in Greater London
We use data on human mobility obtained from mobile applications to explore the activity patterns in the neighbourhoods of Greater London as they emerged from the first wave of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions during summer 2020 and analyse how the lockdown guidelines have exposed the socio-spatial fragmentation between urban communities. The location data are spatially aggregated to 1 km 2 grids and cross-checked against publicly available mobility…
Regional surnames and genetic structure in Great Britain
Following the increasing availability of DNA-sequenced data, the genetic structure of populations can now be inferred and studied in unprecedented detail. Across social science, this innovation is shaping new bio-social research agendas, attracting substantial investment in the collection of genetic, biological and social data for large population samples. Yet genetic samples are special because the precise populations that they represent are unc…
The joy of maps
This short provocation implores more academic geographers to embrace the joy of making maps and to take pride in the links that maps have with the subject. It contends that, despite geography and maps being synonymous in the eyes of many (and most importantly, the public at large), geographers' narrow conception of what maps have been, rather than what they can be, is a missed opportunity in the expression of the discipline as it exists today
Harnessing mobility data to capture changing work from home behaviours between censuses
This paper provides an analysis of working from home patterns in England using data from the 2021 Census to understand (1) how patterns of working from home (WFH) in England have shifted since the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) whether human mobility indicators, specifically Google Community Mobility Reports, provide a reliable proxy for WFH patterns recorded by the 2021 Census, providing a formal evaluation of the reliability of such datasets, whose …
Challenges to representing the population from new forms of consumer data
A large share of human activity is now routinely captured and stored by commercial organisations as consumer data. These new forms of data have provided many new and exciting opportunities for understanding population trends at fine spatial scales. In many settings, they have reduced our dependence on theory and traditional modelling approaches and fundamentally changed how geographers approach producing representations of the population. However…
Japanese surname regions
A global comparison of bicycle sharing systems
The Surname Regions of Great Britain
The British Population retains a strong sense of regional identity, epitomized by periodic campaigns for Scottish and Welsh devolution, or for Cornish self-government.There have been few studies into the regionalization of British surnames and none that utilize any register that can claim to be nationally representative.The National Social Map presented in this paper is the first comprehensive attempt to create a regional geography of Great Brita…
Creating a regional geography of Britain through the spatial analysis of surnames
Delineating Europe's Cultural Regions
Surnames (family names) show distinctive geographical patterning and in many disciplines remain an underutilized source of information about population origins, migration and identity. This paper investigates the geographical structure of surnames, using a unique individual level database assembled from registers and telephone directories from 16 European countries. We develop a novel combination of methods for exhaustively analyzing this multina…
The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor
A recent workshop entitled "The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods" was held in Paris in December 2010, sponsored by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and by the journal Human Biology. This workshop was intended to foster a debate on questions related to the family names and to compare different multidisciplinary approaches involving geneticists, historians, geographers, so…
Mining bicycle sharing data for generating insights into sustainable transport systems
OP21 Modelled Health Impacts of the London Cycle Hire Scheme
Background Bicycle sharing systems are being implemented in many cities worldwide, but have received little robust evaluation. We modelled the impacts of the London cycle hire scheme (LCH) upon the health of its users. Methods Data sources included total-population operational registration and usage data for LCH (April 2011-March 2012); surveys of LCH users (2011); and London data on travel, physical activity, road traffic collisions and PM2.5 ai…
Japanese surname regions
Inequalities in the London bicycle sharing system revisited
Interactive mapping for large, open demographic data sets using familiar geographical features
Ever-increasing numbers of large demographic data sets are becoming available. Many of these data sets are provided as open data, but are in basic repositories where it is incumbent on the user to generate their own visualisations and analysis in order to garner insights. In a bid to facilitate the use and exploration of such data sets, we have created a web mapping platform called DataShine. We link data from the 2011 Census for England and Wale…
Regional surnames and genetic structure in Great Britain
Following the increasing availability of DNA-sequenced data, the genetic structure of populations can now be inferred and studied in unprecedented detail. Across social science, this innovation is shaping new bio-social research agendas, attracting substantial investment in the collection of genetic, biological and social data for large population samples. Yet genetic samples are special because the precise populations that they represent are unc…
Testing Theories of Social Disorganization in Nigeria
This chapter focuses on the social disorganization approach to understanding variations in area-level rates of crime. It first provides context through a brief description of the study area, Badarawa-Malali, an urban district in the city of Kaduna, Nigeria (Section 17.2). Section 17.3 provides a review of the different components of social disorganization theory, the mechanisms through which they are believed to operate, how they have been estima…
Challenges to representing the population from new forms of consumer data
A large share of human activity is now routinely captured and stored by commercial organisations as consumer data. These new forms of data have provided many new and exciting opportunities for understanding population trends at fine spatial scales. In many settings, they have reduced our dependence on theory and traditional modelling approaches and fundamentally changed how geographers approach producing representations of the population. However…
Assessing the impacts of various street-level characteristics on the burden of urban burglary in Kaduna, Nigeria
Assessing the Spatial Concentration of Urban Crime
Using Wi-Fi probe requests from mobile phones to quantify the impact of pedestrian flows on retail turnover
A global comparison of bicycle sharing systems
Assessing the impacts of Airbnb listings on London house prices
Over the course of the last decade, sharing economy platforms have experienced significant growth within cities around the world. Airbnb, which is one of the largest and best-known platforms, provides the focus for this paper and offers a service that allows users to rent properties or spare rooms to guests. Its rapid growth has led to a growing discourse around the consequences of Airbnb rentals within the local context. The research within this…
Spatial and social disparities in the decline of activities during the Covid-19 lockdown in Greater London
We use data on human mobility obtained from mobile applications to explore the activity patterns in the neighbourhoods of Greater London as they emerged from the first wave of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions during summer 2020 and analyse how the lockdown guidelines have exposed the socio-spatial fragmentation between urban communities. The location data are spatially aggregated to 1 km 2 grids and cross-checked against publicly available mobility…
Atlas of Finance
10.1080/2325548X.2025.2539496
The joy of maps
This short provocation implores more academic geographers to embrace the joy of making maps and to take pride in the links that maps have with the subject. It contends that, despite geography and maps being synonymous in the eyes of many (and most importantly, the public at large), geographers' narrow conception of what maps have been, rather than what they can be, is a missed opportunity in the expression of the discipline as it exists today
Harnessing mobility data to capture changing work from home behaviours between censuses
This paper provides an analysis of working from home patterns in England using data from the 2021 Census to understand (1) how patterns of working from home (WFH) in England have shifted since the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) whether human mobility indicators, specifically Google Community Mobility Reports, provide a reliable proxy for WFH patterns recorded by the 2021 Census, providing a formal evaluation of the reliability of such datasets, whose …
The Regionalization and Aggregation of In‐App Location Data to Maximize Information and Minimize Data Disclosure
To minimize the disclosure of personal information, sensitive location data collected by mobile phones is often aggregated to predefined geographic units and presented as counts of devices at a given time. The use of grids or units created by statistical agencies for the dissemination of traditional data sets—such as censuses—are common choices for this aggregation process. However, these can result in large variations in the number of devices en…
Creating the London night-worker geodemographic classification
This paper aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the geography of night working in London (United Kingdom). Around a quarter of London’s workforce is employed in the evening and night-time economy, working between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am. Compared to daytime workers, there is limited public information on where these workers are located, how they travel, and what amenities they rely on during work hours. To address this gap, we…
Do personal narratives make thematic maps more persuasive? Integrating concrete examples into maps of the social determinants of health
Thematic maps about social inequalities can engage audiences, add context to policy debates, and change attitudes toward the issues. The field of communication has long compared the relative persuasiveness of this kind of abstract data versus concrete examples about individuals. While studies have compared the effectiveness of presenting both types of information alongside each other, the line between them is sometimes blurred in data visualizati…
Challenges and opportunities for using data visualisation to communicate geographic health inequalities
Those who produce and share research on geographic health inequalities face calls to communicate evidence more effectively to various audiences, including the public and policymakers. Data visualisation is a key tool available to these communicators, but little is known about how they approach this in practice or how existing visualisation guidance aligns with real-world constraints. Through 20 semi-structured interviews with these communicators …
Geography (15 obras) · Computer Science (14 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Population (11 obras) · Demography (8 obras) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (8 obras) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (7 obras) · Economic geography (6 obras) · Engineering (6 obras) · Regional science (6 obras)