The representation of data in a viewable medium or format
Questions tagged [visualisation]
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Examples of building-level geovisualization
I have recently stumbled upon a presentation and paper by Duncan Smith exploring geovisualization of 2001 area classification of output areas using building level resolution of urban area (London in this example).
Two questions:
Could you point…
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Processing(.org) for geospatial visualization?
Does anyone know if Processing is being used for geospatial visualization? I can't find much out there, but this is impressive: http://benfry.com/zipdecode/
Here's one I just found: http://fathom.info/projects/countyhealth.html
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Static map visualization of multiple categories/attributes in a point?
I have a point data with multiple categorical values for each point location. For example:
point1 = a,b
point2 = a
point3 = b,c
point4 = a,b,c,d,e
and so on
Note that the values are categorical/nominal, therefore, I cannot create some form of…
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Displaying point data to reflect time/age
I have a layer of 3,000 points for a state, with each indicating the age of a specific type of building. What is a recommended visual display that effectively and equally highlights the age of these structures.
I thought of using a heat map, but…
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Generating a dynamic graph on USA map
I want to reproduce the dynamic US map showing the obesity percentage across the years 1984-2009 as shown in the CDC website http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
I am looking for tools and code to get started on this.
EDIT 1 (Apr 22 2011)
I…
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Visualisation using simple plotting routines or advanced GIS packages?
When I have geographic data to be displayed, I usually use a plotting library to visualise the data, for example, combining matplotlib and basemap, or using the Matlab Mapping toolbox. For example, I have data gridded on a lat - lon grid, and to get…
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Examples of beautiful statewide maps that have a lot of layers (20+ layers)
I'm in the process of building a statewide map of all the transportation modes, waterways, and other information for a whopping total of 40 layers.
I was wondering if you have seen print maps that have many displayed layers in a professional and…
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Examples of GIS Visualisation
Examples of GIS Visualisation
Example:
Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology created one of the first uses of geographical analysis on a static map to solve a problem of…
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Visualize given temperatures on image/map/plane
I am looking for a way to visualize some data of the form :
latitude longitude temperature
as image(s). Have many of these 3-tuple lines uniformly distributed on a region.
Ultimately, I am looking for a dynamic way, but even a statically creation…
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Visualizing Subplot Overlap
I have a bit of trouble visualizing my data.
I have a dataset with 60 minutes of seismic signals and i determined the signal source areas. My goal now is to find out how the results change using different window sizes.
Example: The dataset is…
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