Questions tagged [visualisation]

The representation of data in a viewable medium or format

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geovisualization

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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…