Interesting maps

Which country is the most successful at the Olympic Games? Find out in our Olympic regional heat map! We've talked before about how visualizing your business data can help discover insights or capture your audience's attention. This week, we thought we would show you how this can extend to all types of data. When searching online for Olympic medal lists, you will be met with endless lists and graphs from multiple sources. Like spreadsheets, this can be a dull way...

Within eSpatial you can overlay your data with many of our pre-made boundary and demographic datasets which are listed in our Dataset Library. You can use these datasets in eSpatial maps and build and balance your territories on them. Using this data will help you gain valuable insights on your customer's location, target new markets, assign resources, and define your territories. What Are Datasets? When you sign up for an eSpatial account, you will find datasets pre-loaded into your library....

We've taken figures from Eurostat and created a map that shows the average working hours per week in different European countries. Click on the map to find the data. Where would you like to work? View a larger version of 2014 Average Working Hours created with eSpatial mapping software. Green is good, yellow bad... Since we circulated this map around the eSpatial office, there's been a half-hearted effort to to get the company relocated to The Netherlands. Given that the...

Preclearance allows air passengers to fulfill US customs and security requirements before entering the country. Currently, there are 13 airports outside the US that have preclearance facilities. How does preclearance work? Basically, you present yourself to a US customs post in an airport and go through a process similar to what would happen if you were to be processed upon arrival in the US. it's just like arriving on a domestic flight. What's the advantage? There are a multitude of...

The Institute for Economics and Peace has just released it's findings on global conflict and we've turned the data into an eSpatial World Peace Map. 162 countries have been ranked according to general security, level of conflict and degree of militarization. Click on the image below to find out how each country ranks in the Global Peace index for 2013. We hope where you live is very very green!

In this digital age of interactive maps and mapping software, there is still much to learn from what's gone before... 1. The Treasure Island map – revealing the importance of location data mapping Plot your key location data and then arrange all the other data around it. In this case, the key data is “X” (where the treasure is buried). Secondary data is the information that surrounds the primary data. Mapping this data will allow you to work out what resources you need...

Click the image above to view the larger map Last Wednesday, Time's 9th annual "100 most influential people" list was released to the world - ruffling a few feathers, and flattering some others! Described by Time as the people who "inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and change our world" - this year's list toppers saw a generous mix of music figures, aristocracy, and presidential icons, to name but a few. Looking at the list just wasn't telling enough for...