Mobility Flows and Accessibility Using R and Big Open Data
2. Visualization of Mobility Flows Using flowmapper and flowmapblue
July 21, 2025
Agenda
Visualization Options of Flow Data
Interactive Visualizations using
{flowmapblue}
Static Visualizations using
{flowmapper}
Flow graphs
Flow graphs
Line plots
Edge Bundling of Individual Tracks
Animation of Individual Tracks
{moveVis} - an R package for animal movement, can also be used to illustrate
Flow maps
“[may well be] the best statistical graphic ever drawn” – E. Tufte
Flow maps
Visualization of Origin-Destination Data.
Directed edges between nodes.
Positions of nodes correspond to geographic space.
Variations express differences in flow strength
size / thickness
color
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Flow maps
Visualization of Origin-Destination Data.
Directed edges between nodes.
Positions of nodes correspond to geographic space.
Variations express differences in flow strength
size / thickness
color
…
{flowmapblue}
Available as a web version and as an R package
Interactive visualisations
Part of the flowmap suite, continously developed
{flowmapper}
Inspired by
{flowmapblue}Static visualisations within the
{ggplot2}frameworkCapacity to export as spatial objects
flowmapper – ggplot2 framework
flowmapper – Clustering
flowmapper – Customization
flowmapper – Adding Raster Basemaps
Flowmapper - Comparative Flow Maps
Flowmapper - Exporting as Spatial Object
