I stumbled upon a lego map in twitter and I thought it was quite fun and I should do something similar:
And here’s the result. One with NaturalEarth data colours for height, and another one with a set of official lego colours 😀
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NOTE from the future:
Since everybody in twitter was to keen to remind me, First the map in EPSG:25831, then in 4236 😀
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Let’s get out of your way, here’s the full-resolution map:
Barcelona Equidistant Azimuthal.
Available in my zazzle.es shop.
Now that you’ve seen it and ordered a print :-P, I can start going on on the full process 🙂
Coming back with another bcn map. this time I’m not representing anything from open data, but I’m playing around the network analysis tool available with Qgis. The following distances map has been generated using those tools:
Keeping with the row of Barcelona data, I present here a map of the unemployment rate per neighbourhood since 2012 up to 2019.
The data comes from Barcelona open data estat-atur-pes dataset. This dataset contains the column pes_atur for each month of each year. In the presented visualizations I simply used the value of January for each year.
pes_atur is the percentage of the unemployed registered citizens in each neighbourhood over the number of registered citizens for that neighbourhood with ages comprised between 16 and 64 years old.
Long definition, but clear idea.
Again, using a choropleth map similar to the one from the mean rent prices map. I just used a different colour scheme from white (almost no unemployment) to red (heavy unemployment).
First an animated gif of all the maps:
And now, all the individual maps per year.
There was no data prior to 2012, so what we can mostly see from here is a kind of recovery from the 2009 financial crisis. We come from 2012 when most neighbourhoods had over 11% of registered unemployment, to 2019 when we can see lighter tones, showing unemployment rates under 9% in most areas.
This is clearly not an in-depth review, just a quick take on the presented data. More information can be seen in the official Barcelona website, or the small publications from newspapers.
Here I am again, this time with something that I love, trees!
It’s mostly common knowledge that the tree of Barcelona is the Platanus (bear with me with tree names, since the names in english confuse me most of the time 🙂 ). I’ve been looking for an excuse to dive back to Barcelona open data, and to create a hex-grid-map.
For this two images, I’ve used the street trees dataset, which only takes into account trees planted along streets, parks and green zones are not taken into account.
And from this excuse, two new data visualizations emerged!
Following the quick map of Barcelona mean renting prices, I took it to play a little bit more with datasets of Barcelona.
I came across an interesting one, traffic accidents in Barcelona, which could map quite nicely as a Heatmap:
Unsurprisingly there are accidents all over Barcelona, but the city center concentrates the highest amount of them.
The dataset splits the accidents by accident type (alcohol, bad signs etc), but the majority of points are classified as Not provided so there’s no way to prepare more specific maps.
There are datasets from 2014 upwards, to be frank, after checking them the hot points are more or less the same, so 2018 is probably enough to get an idea 🙂
I had some extra fun playing with this datasets, I filtered by different vehicle types to generate different heatmaps.
Buses are all over the place (which make sense, since those are running almost non-stop all over the city). On the other hand, Taxis are quite focused in the city center and l’Eixample, not surprising those being the most traffic packed zones.
Personal car accidents appear in the city center too, but we can see some highlights in the two arteries of the city, ronda de dalt and ronda litoral, those motorways are the main way to cross Barcelona connecting to bigger highways and neighbouring cities. There are daily jams in those two motorways.
Bike accidents appear mainly in the center, eixample and close to wide streets (like Diagonal and Meridiana). In other neigbourhoods it looks quite safe 🙂
Find here a clunky non-stylized bar graph of total accidents by vehicle colours. Colour names are in catalan, but the bars match the name so it’s quite international. Yes, apparently there’s a category for black-yellow vehicles, which I guess are Taxis.
What about the insurance myth about red cars?. Well, I don’t know about that, but it’s clear that there’s a big bar of red vehicles having accidents 🙂 But since I don’t have the number of red cars running around Barcelona it could just be that it’s a popular colour. White and Black cars are very common (from a quick walk around in Bcn you confirm that statement) and as you can see those have the most accidents.
To be safe, just buy a pink car 😉 (not really)
Making smallish maps of my area is fun, so I might get more datasets to present different aspects of Barcelona in the future :-D.
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