Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique

Auteur(s) : Dorling, Daniel (1968-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The visualization of spatial social structure [Texte électronique] / Daniel Dorling

Publication : Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Description matérielle : 1 online resource

Collection : Wiley series in computational and quantitative social science

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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 ..

Sujet(s) : Géographie humaine -- Grande-Bretagne  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Cartographie -- Philosophie  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Livres numériques  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781118353929

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb446534138

Notice n° :  FRBNF44653413 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : 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.