Screen LibraryThe visualization of spatial social structure
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 c...
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| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley series in computational and quantitative social science |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118353929 |
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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 organized, 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 color 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... |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781118353998 (ePub) 1118353994 (ePub) 9781118353981 (MobiPocket) 1118353986 (MobiPocket) 9781118354001 ( Adobe PDF) 1118354001 ( Adobe PDF) 9781118353929 (electronic bk.) 1118353927 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | GF551 |
| CLC: | K901 |
| Contents: | Front Matter -- Envisioning Information -- People, Spaces and Places -- Artificial Reality -- Honeycomb Structure -- Transforming the Mosaic -- Cobweb of Flows -- On the Surface -- The Wood and the Trees -- Volume Visualization -- Conclusion: Another Geography -- Endnote -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: Drawing faces -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index. |