Developments in Spatial Data Visualisation

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; 28/4/2015

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1. www.cdrc.ac.uk www.alex-singleton.com geographicdatascience.com @alexsingleton Consumer Data Research Centre An ESRC Data Investment Alex Singleton Professor of Geographic Information Science University of Liverpool Developments in Spatial Data Visualisation
2. Content • Why is this important - Problem Visuals • Data and GIS • Some Example Visual Interfaces • Visualising Places • Visualising People • Visualisation Tools
3. Problem Visuals
4. Problem Visuals
5. Problem Visuals Eurostat yearbook 2004
6. Problem Visuals
7. GIS
8. GIS Analyst A1: Struggling suburbs A2: Suburban localities B1: Disadvantaged diaspora B2: Bangladeshi enclaves B3: Students and minority mix C1: Asian owner occupiers C2: Transport service workers C3: East End Asians C4: Elderly Asians D1: Educational advantage D2: City central E1: City and student fringe E2: Graduation occupation F1: City enclaves F2: Affluent suburbs G1: Affordable transitions G2: Public sector and service employees H1: Detached retirement H2: Not quite Home−Counties
9. Geoweb 1.0
10. Geoweb 2.0
11. Geoweb 2.0
12. API XML / KML / RSS / JSON
13. Visualising Places
14. Visualising Places
16. http://www.educationprofiler.org
18. 1) Download and process all data 2) Download OA and Ward boundaries 3) Render maps and legends for LAD 4) Write a latex file pdfcrop PDFTK
19. 2010 Census of Japan Open Atlas Alex Singleton [www.alex-singleton.com] Chris Brunsdon, Tomoki Nakaya, Keiji Yano Version 1.0 ! 2011 Census Open Atlas Alex Singleton (www.alex-singleton.com) Version 2.0
22. Savings • A manual map might typically take 5 minutes to create • 134,567 maps • 35 hour working week - 6.9 years. • Median wages of a GIS Technician £138,207. ! 2011 Census Open Atlas Alex Singleton (www.alex-singleton.com) Version 2.0
23. Visualising People • 26 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Oceania • Individual level data for 300 million people (full name and address) • 10.8 million unique surnames • 6.5 million unique forenames • Statistics at postcode level
31. Visual Tools www.onomap.org
32. Visual Tools http://cartodb.com/
33. Visual Tools http://mapbox.com/
34. Visual Tools http://gephi.org/
35. Visual Tools http://scapetoad.choros.ch/
36. Visual Tools http://www.wordle.net/
37. Visual Tools http://geodacenter.asu.edu/
38. Visual Tools http://processing.org/
39. www.alex-singleton.com; www.cdrc.ac.uk www.onomap.org Many thanks….