My research papers develop, evaluate and apply visual approaches to analysing social science datasets. They typically blend empirical and methodological contributions. A key domain area is Transport research. I am especially interested in how visualization can be used to explore, infer and communicate under uncertainty complex structure in behvaioural transport data.
Books
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Roger Beecham (forthcoming) “Visualization for Social Data Science”, Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, doi:
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Journal articles
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Jan Magnuszewski, Roger Beecham, and Luke Burns (2025) “The Auckland Urban Liveability Index: A Mechanism for Quantifying and Evaluating Modern Urban Densification”, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, doi:
10.1007/s12061-025-09643-9 -
Caroline Tait, Roger Beecham, Stuart Barber and Robin Lovelace (2024) “Build it but will they come? Exploring the impact of introducing contraflow cycling on cycling volumes with crowd-sourced data”, Journal of Transport \& Health, doi:
10.1016/j.jth.2024.101758 -
Roger Beecham, Yuanxuan Yang, Caroline Tait, and Robin Lovelace (2023) “Connected bikeability in London: which localities are better connected by bike and does this matter?”, Environment & Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, doi:
10.1177/23998083231165122 -
Caroline Tait, Roger Beecham, Stuart Barber and Robin Lovelace (2023) “Contraflows and cycling safety: Evidence from 22 years of data involving 508 one-way streets”, Accident Analysis \& Prevention, doi:
10.1016/j.aap.2022.106895 -
Roger Beecham and Robin Lovelace (2023) “A framework for inserting visually-supported inferences into geographical analysis workflow: application to road crash analysis”, Geographical Analysis, doi:
110.1111/gean.12338 -
Caroline Tait, Roger Beecham, Stuart Barber and Robin Lovelace (2022) “Is cycling infrastructure in London safe and equitable? Evidence from the cycling infrastructure database”, Journal of Transport \& Health, doi:
10.1016/j.jth.2022.101369 -
Yuanxuan Yang, Roger Beecham, Alison Heppenstall and Alexis Comber (2021) “Understanding the impacts of public transit disruptions on bikeshare schemes and cycling behaviours using spatiotemporal and graph-based analysis: A case study of four London Tube strikes”, Journal of Transport Geography, doi:
10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103255 -
Roger Beecham, Jason Dykes, Chris Rooney and William Wong (2021) “Design Exposition Discussion Documents for Rich Design Discourse in Applied Visualization”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization \& Computer Graphics, doi:
10.1109/TVCG.2020.2979433 -
Rob Radburn and Roger Beecham (2021) “Mapping deprivation for each and every small area in England”, Regional Studies, Regional Science, doi:
10.1080/21681376.2021.1934528 -
Roger Beecham, Jason Dykes, Layik Hama, Nik Lomax (2021) “On the Use of ‘Glyphmaps’ for Analysing the Scale and Temporal Spread of COVID-19 Reported Cases”, International Journal of Geo-Infomation, doi:
10.3390/ijgi10040213 -
Robin Lovelace, Roger Beecham Eva Heinen, Eugeni Vidal Tortosa, Yuanxuan Yang, Chris Slade and Antonia Roberts (2020) “Is the London Cycle Hire Scheme becoming more inclusive? An evaluation of the shifting spatial distribution of uptake based on 70 million trips”, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, doi:
10.1016/j.tra.2020.07.017 -
Roger Beecham, Nick Williams, Lex Comber (2020) “Regionally-structured explanations behind area-level populism: an update to recent ecological analyses”, PLoS One, doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0229974 -
Roger Beecham (2020) "Using position, angle and thickness to expose the shifting geographies of the 2019 UK General Election" Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, doi:
10.1177/0308518X2090939 -
Roger Beecham and Aidan Slingsby (2019) “Characterising labour market self-containment in London with geographically arranged small multiples”, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, doi:
10.1177/0308518X19850580 -
Roger Beecham, Aidan Slingsby and Chris Brunsdon (2018) “Locally-varying explanations behind the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union”, Journal of Spatial Information Science, doi:
10.5311/JOSIS.2018.16.377 -
Roger Beecham, Jason Dykes, Wouter Meulemans, Aidan Slingsby, Cagatay Turkay and Jo Wood (2017) “Map line-ups: effects of spatial structure on graphical inference”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, doi:
10.1109/TVCG.2016.2598862 -
Roger Beecham, Chris Rooney, Sebastian Meier, Jason Dykes, Aidan Slingsby, Cagatay Turkay, Jo Wood and William Wong (2016) “Faceted Views of Varying Emphasis (FaVVEs): a framework for visualising multi-perspective small multiples”, Computer Graphics Forum, doi:
10.1111/cgf.12900 -
Jo Wood, Roger Beecham and Jason Dykes (2014) “Moving beyond sequential design: Reflections on a rich multi-channel approach to data visualization”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, doi:
10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346323 -
Roger Beecham and Jo Wood (2014) “Characterising group-cycling journeys using interactive graphics”, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, doi:
10.1016/j.trc.2014.03.007 -
Roger Beecham, Jo Wood and Audrey Bowerman (2014) “Studying commuting behaviours using collaborative visual analytics”, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, doi:
10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2013.10.007 -
Roger Beecham and Jo Wood (2014) “Exploring gendered cycling behaviours within a large-scale behavioural data-set”, Transportation Planning and Technology, doi:
10.1080/03081060.2013.844903 -
Aidan Slingsby, Roger Beecham and Aidan Slingsby (2013) “Visual analysis of social networks in space and time using smartphone logs”, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, doi:
10.1016/j.pmcj.2013.07.002
Conference papers
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Johanna Haider Doppler, Margit Pohl, Roger Beecham and Jason Dykes (2021) “Strategies for Detecting Difference in Map Line-Up Tasks”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, doi:
10.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_36