Advances in Geographic Data Visualisation

ADVANCES IN DATA VISUALISATION

Dr Alex D SingletonCentre for Advanced Spatial Analysis , University College London

www.alex-singleton.com

Geographic

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CASA

• ~ 35 PhD students

• 10 RA

• 4 Prof / Lecturers

• ~ 15 RA

• Outputs

• Books, Papers, 152 Working Papers, blogs, software, websites

GIS Analyst

WEB MAPPING 1.0

WEB MAPPING 2.0

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgilbir/3716465898/sizes/l/

http://www.crisismappers.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajturner/4329833289/in/photostream/

http://itoworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/ito-world-at-ted-2010-project-haiti.html

Data

Tiles

Display Interface

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http://www.censusprofiler.org

http://www.educationprofiler.org/

http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/

SURNAMES DATABASE

• 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

http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/

Fabian Wildenauer

Alexander Klaver

BASIC NAME CLASSIFICATION

Surnames Forenames

Pablo Mateos

Garcia

Pérez

... Juan

Rosa

Marta

...

Sánchez

Rodríguez

...

NAME CLUSTERS

Welsh Names “aim was to establish a Welsh colony which would preserve the Welsh language and culture”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_(ship)

Mimosa (1865)185 Welsh

The Future?

http://www.alex-singleton.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/GISDevelopment.pdf

SOCIAL GPS

http://smalltalkapp.com

http://senseable.mit.edu/

STORE CARDS

Many thanks!

Advances in Geographic Data Visualisation

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