Visualisation of Spatial Social Structure.
Başlık:
Visualisation of Spatial Social Structure.
Yazar:
Dorling, Danny.
ISBN:
9781118354001
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Seri:
Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science
İçerik:
The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of text boxes -- Preface -- Introduction: Human cartography -- Chapter 1 Envisioning information -- 1.1 Visual thinking -- 1.2 Pictures over time -- 1.3 Beyond illustration -- 1.4 Texture and colour -- 1.5 Perspective and detail -- 1.6 Pattern and illusion -- 1.7 From mind to mind -- Chapter 2 People, spaces and places -- 2.1 Which people? -- 2.2 Why study places? -- 2.3 What are spaces? -- 2.4 Drawing lines -- 2.5 Picturing points -- 2.6 Population space -- 2.7 Adding time -- Chapter 3 Artificial reality -- 3.1 Imagining reality -- 3.2 Abstract spaces -- 3.3 Area cartograms -- 3.4 The nature of space -- 3.5 Producing illusions -- 3.6 Population space -- 3.7 Stretching spacetime -- Chapter 4 Honeycomb structure -- 4.1 Viewing society -- 4.2 Who the people are -- 4.3 Disparate origins -- 4.4 Lost opportunities -- 4.5 Work, industry and home -- 4.6 How people vote -- 4.7 The social landscape -- Chapter 5 Transforming the mosaic -- 5.1 Still images of change -- 5.2 Forming the structure -- 5.3 Structure transformed -- 5.4 Variable employment -- 5.5 House price inflation -- 5.6 Reshaping votes -- 5.7 Erosion and deposition -- Chapter 6 Cobweb of flows -- 6.1 What flow is -- 6.2 What flows there are -- 6.3 Unravelling the tangles -- 6.4 Drawing the vortices -- 6.5 Commuting chaos -- 6.6 Migration networks -- 6.7 A space of flows -- Chapter 7 On the surface -- 7.1 2D vision, 3D world -- 7.2 Surface definition -- 7.3 Depth cues -- 7.4 Landscape painting -- 7.5 Surface geometry -- 7.6 Travel time surface -- 7.7 Surface value -- Chapter 8 The wood and the trees -- 8.1 Sculptured characters -- 8.2 Circles, pies and rings -- 8.3 Bars and pyramids -- 8.4 Flocks of arrows -- 8.5 Trees and castles -- 8.6 Crowds of faces.
8.7 Information overload -- Chapter 9 Volume visualization -- 9.1 The third dimension -- 9.2 Spaces, times and places -- 9.3 Spacetime continuum -- 9.4 Three-dimensional graphs -- 9.5 Flows through time -- 9.6 Volume rendering -- 9.7 Interactive visualization -- Chapter 10 Conclusion: Another geography -- Endnote -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: Drawing faces -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Color Plates.
Özet:
How do you draw a map of 100,000 places, of more than a million flows of people, of changes over time and space, of different kinds of spaces, surfaces and volumes, from human travel time to landscapes of hopes, fears, migration, manufacturing and mortality? How do you turn the millions of numbers concerning some of the most important moments of our lives into images that allow us to appreciate the aggregate while still remembering the detail? The visualization of spatial social structure means, literally, making visible the geographical patterns to the way our lives have come to be socially organised, seeing the geography in society. To a statistical readership visualization implies using data. More widely defined it implies freeing our imaginations. The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure introduces the reader to new ways of thinking about how to look at social statistics, particularly those about people in places. The author presents a unique combination of statistical focus and understanding of social structures and innovations in visualization, describing the rationale for, and development of, a new way of visualizing information in geographical research. These methods are illustrated through extensive full colour graphics; revealing mistakes, techniques and discoveries which present a picture of a changing political and social geography. More complex aspects on the surface of social landscapes are revealed with sculptured symbols allowing us to see the relationships between the wood and the trees of social structure. Today's software can be so flexible that these techniques can now be emulated without coding. This book centres on a particular place and time; 1980s Britain, and a particular set of records; routine social statistics. A great deal of information about the 80s' social geography of Britain is contained within
databases such as the population censuses, surveys and administrative data. Following the release of the 2011 census, now is a good time to look back at the past to introduce many new visualization techniques that could be used by future researchers.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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