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The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure (Hardcover)
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The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure (Hardcover)
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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 organised, 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 colour 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. Following the release of the 2011 census, now
is a good time to look back at the past to introduce many new
visualization techniques that could be used by future researchers.
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