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📌Interested in learning more about the interactive maps which have been added to #LondonsPovertyProfile this year? @wpi_economics Spatial data scientist @oobr of @CDRC_UK who built them gives insight in his most recent blog post bit.ly/2Vtd454

Map of the Week: UK General Election 2019 - find out more at wrld.at/motw89 #maps #cartograms #cartography #worldmapper #motw #politics #UK #unitedkingdom #britain #election #ge2019 #ge2019data #conservative #labour #brexit #england #scotland #northernireland #wales

General Election Three Ways: Political Landscapes of the United Kingdom in 2019 wrld.at/ge2019 #election #ge2019 #maps #cartograms #cartography #politics

London: The first National Park City geographical.co.uk/places/cities/… & nationalparkcity.london #NationalParkCity #London Congrats @DanRavenEllison @LondonNPC (via @GeographicalMag)

@hackneytours Proportional Representation could help…

@Londonmapper Great. Back to the simplistic binaries of the C18 because our tiny brains can't handle nuance. Shall we go the full civil war?

In Focus: The Revival of Two-Party Politics in Britain journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

New interactive death map breathes life into medieval London theguardian.com/science/2018/n…

Wealth disparities for babies born in England evident from birth: Women living in the most deprived parts are most likely to have babies of low birthweight. Poverty and disadvantage are still a real issue here dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdi… (via @DrJaneHirst) #inequality #health

UK austerity has inflicted 'great misery' on citizens, UN says theguardian.com/society/2018/n…

Apologies for the problems with our website. londonmapper.org.uk is up and running again, though with a bit of instability. We are working in improving its performance!

Londonmapper is up and running again. Apologies for the server outage! londonmapper.org.uk #londonmapper #maps #poverty #inequality #london

Back to the 1950s?

Nearly 3,000 households in Brent were placed in temporary accommodation in the first quarter of 2017. But the percentage of them who were placed outside the borough is the lowest of any London borough – less than 5%.

The long hot summer before the war? Peak Inequality at the Wilderness Festival. Danny Dorling taking the hang-over slot. Talking - Book Tent 10am on Sunday August 5th 2018. Is this the summer of the worse income inequality Britain will record? What Next? wildernessfestival.com/programme/dann…

The Londonmapper website is currently down due to technical issues. We are working on a fix and will do our best to have it up and running again very soon!

The top 10% earn over 50% of London's wealth. London is the most unequal city in the UK, and many Londoners struggle to make ends meet.

1 in 5 working residents in Redbridge earn less than the London Living Wage. This is close to the London average. But unlike in almost all other boroughs, this rate in Redbridge has not worsened since 2013.

In Focus: Could Brexit be a Boon for British trade with the Commonwealth? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… #politics #brexit #commonwealth #trade @PolStudiesAssoc

27% of Londoners live in poverty - 6 percentage points higher than the figure for the rest of England.

@iGiGL @WildLondon Some more #cartography tips: No total numbers on choropleth maps (colours need to represent relative data).Points for sightings are perhaps the most useful way for representing this small amount of data.

Hedgehogs are emerging across London. From 2016-2017 there we no hedgehog records in some central boroughs. Have you seen a hedgehog? Record your sighting with @WildLondon here: #UrbanUrchins" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wildlondon.org.uk/hedgehog#Urban…