Luis Sevillano

Hi! I am Luis Sevillano.

I am a developer in the graphics desk at El País where I work creating graphics, tools and visual stories to present the news.

I studied Ancient History and Archaeology at the Autonomous University of Madrid. I like maps and remote sensing.

Storm Filomena

Jan 10 2021

Maps and graphics about the storm Filomena. An extraordinary and unusual phenomenon that caused a historic snowfall in most of Spain, collapsing the country for several days.

The death of the last glaciers in Spain

Jan 03 2021

The last glaciers of Spain are disappearing. We went to the Pyrenees with a group of climate scientists to find out why.

How Biden won

Jan 10 2021

A visual analysis about 2020 US Presidential Election where Biden won the presidency.

The map of mortality in Spain by municipality

Feb 07 2020

New detailed mortality data reveals very significant geographical differences across Spain.

Europe, a continent of coalitions far beyond Spain

Jan 07 2020

Agreement between parties is the most common form of government. An analysis of 38 countries shows that coalitions are the most common form of government in Europe.

Merge CSV headers in R

Aug 08 2019

This post explains how to to treat tabular data files with more than one header in R using the tidyverse. This structure is very common in Spanish statistical data.

2019 Spanish general election

Apr 02 2019

Graphics about thee 2019 Spanish general election for RTVE, the Spanish public broadcaster. Scatterplots, cartograms and many maps.

QGIS Tile Writer

Oct 16 2018

Python script to export a canvas of QGIS to tiles, compatible with Leaflet or Mapbox.

QGIS for journalists

Mar 11 2016

A course about the basic principles of cartography and GIS I gave to data journalism students at the University of Villanueva, in Madrid.

Remote sensing

Jun 04 2017

Some thoughts about remote sensing with two use cases of the Difference Normalized Burn Index. I use Landsat8 imagery to assess the severity of two large fires in Spain.

Catastro A Coruna

Nov 21 2017

Testing a new QGIS plugin for the Spanish cadastre mapping public lands in A Coruña.

The Spanish forces in the Mediterranean

Dec 09 2016

Maps published at El Independienteabout the presence of Spanish armed forces in Italy, Turkey and Lebanon.

ai2html workshop

Jun 29 2016

Workshop about ai2html imparted at Medialab Prado in Madrid. Ai2html is an Illustrator plugin for publishing responsive graphics developed at The New York Times.

Barcelona 1992

Jul 24 2017

We analyzed how the Olympics changed Barcelona forever on the 25th anniversary of the games using aerial images.

Transparentia

Jan 02 2019

Transparentia lets you to check more than 9,600 salaries of politicians and public workers. We wanted to answer a simple question: how many politicians are there in Spain and how much are they paid.