Visualize spatio-temporal data with micromaps: Interfaces, Visual Analytics - Softcover

Zhang, Chunling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659247200 ISBN 13: 9783659247200

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

This book addresses the visualization of spatio-temporal data for the purposes of communication, understanding, discovery, and analysis. A common approach to spatio-temporal visualization seeks to convey changes by showing a sequence of maps over time, which causes the problem of change blindness. The book builds on the work of Dr. Carr and Dr. Pickle on micromaps, addresses change blindness by adding dynamic interactivity to the comparative micromaps, develops new designs and demonstrates their use. Examples use the resulting interactive visualization tool named TCmaps (Temporal Change maps) to illustrate the designs and general utility by showing data from a variety of domains including health, education, environment, demography, and ecology. The examples show that one can see, point at and talk about all the changes designated by interactive thresholds since the changes are shown explicitly in separate maps sequences. Since the research and methodology development in this book builds on advances in the cognitive, statistics, and computing sciences, the results are of potential interest for a large domain of application and for professionals in Data Visualization fields.

About this title

About the Author

Chunling Zhang,PhD: Computational Statistics at George Mason University. Software Engineer at IBM, Chicago, IL.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659247200
• ISBN 13: 9783659247200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136