The Mauretania exhibit at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle led me to look at the fastest average Atlantic crossings for passenger liners. I couldn’t find a visualisation of the crossing times so made 📊 using Flourish: flo.uri.sh/visualisatio... #dataviz

Only better outcome would be that Ned/Stan migrates back next year with a special friend. Looks lonely up on his lamppost of an evening.

NI using the Irish Grid makes a lot of sense for planning/building/mapping in border areas.

I don't like the idea of 'the problem of large scale maps meeting at the border', from www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/pr...

Bizarre UX on the Android government emergency alert for storm Éowyn in NI. Frantically press OK to stop the siren and the text immediately disappears. It can then only be found in the depths of the notification settings.

A New Year visualisation of Google search trends for 'gym near me' shows, unsurprisingly, that the New Year week is the most popular time of year for people looking for a gym in the UK. The only exception is 2021 when the peak was delayed until lockdown ended.

And a nice fade to/from openstreetmap and the old map of the Ormeau Rd/Ballynafeigh area

'Something between an Orthodox funeral mass and a Nirvana gig' Musician Hazlett Keers, poet John Brown, guitarist @paulblablah and photographer/poet James Hughes will be performing "Sailortown Requiem" on Friday 2nd June at 8pm. £7.50 on door, proceeds to @StJoesBelfast.

The rivers, lakes and streams of Ireland, coloured by river basin, combining detailed mapping from north and south of the border. Inspired by @PythonMaps, data from http://hydrosheds.org, @OrdnanceIreland, @daera_ni, @EPAIreland, visuals in http://altair-viz.github.io