London life – mapped

Where do the happiest, least stressed, most satisfied Londoners live? What’s the busiest station? Do football fans support their local team? These questions and more are explored graphically by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti’s London: The Information Capital, published by Particular Books on 30 October

  • Live in London, tired of life?

    The Office for National Statistics asks UK residents to rate their feelings of life satisfaction, purpose, happiness and anxiety. This graphic links each of those four questions to a different facial attributeClick here to see full image on mobile
    Islington has problems

  • Order out of the chaos

    Nearly a million Londoners sweep into work each morning via the Undergound, Overground and National Rail. Here, geographer Ed Manley used Oyster card data to show where most of them exit the network Click here to see full image on mobile
    Commute

  • Football tribes

    This graphic shows London’s football clubs by popularity on Twitter from August 2013 – May 2014. Each square, which represents 500m x 500m, is coloured according to the football club with the most tweeted hashtag in that area Click here to see full image on mobile
    Football tribes

  • Too many tweets make a map

    Users have the option of sharing location when they post: if most messages in a user’s account were from Rome, we assumed this was their home. International tweeters fill the air in the city centre and Heathrow. Grey (UK) tweets trace the path of London’s railwaysClick here to see full image on mobile
    Twitter

  • Hot property

    If both members of a couple have median London salaries and have been able to save their mortgage deposit – or can withdraw it from ‘the bank of Mum and Dad’ – then spending £250,000 on a first flat would be possible. This is half the average house price in London (as of January 2014) and the same as the UK average
    Generation rent

  • They came, they saw, they spent

    For the past five years, Ramadan has coincided with the heat of summer. Before it begins, millionaires from Gulf Arab states have been escaping to London for a few weeks. US tourists spent the most as a country, yet can’t compete with Saudis in terms of spending per visitorClick here to see full image on mobile
    Spending
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