Tag: socio-spatial analysis
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Socio-spatial secondary data source for all over the world
In this post I want to echo this fantastic source of socio-spatial data, perfect for your GIS analysis in most of the countries all over the world The files have been created from OpenStreetMap dataand are licensed under the Open Database 1.0 License. Seewww.openstreetmap.org for details about the project. This file contains data as of…
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Socio-economic analysis with nighttime light series. Step 1: downloading shapefile of the study area
Context: we analyze economic changes in Colombian municipalities between 1993 and 2020. We need to download ArcGis, a geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information maintained by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri). It is used for creating and using maps, compiling geographic data, analyzing mapped information, sharing and discovering geographic…
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Socio-economic analysis with nighttime light series: downloading nighttime images
Context: we analyze economic changes in Colombian municipalities between 1993 and 2020. In this post, we focus on how to download our “raw data”, i.e. the nighttime light data for Colombia. Step 1: Download nighttime light series from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Particularly Version 4 DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights Time Series (DMSP) –…
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Socio-economic analysis with nighttime light series: uploading nighttime light file to a GIS software
Context: we analyze economic changes in Colombian municipalities between 1993 and 2020. After having downloaded nighttime images from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and install ArcGIS or any other GIS software in our computer, we proceed now to upload nighttime files for our analysis. NOAA provide images covering the whole world which can…
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Socio-spatial differentiation in southern Leipzig post-mining area
Bellow it is showed the three types of communities (Kabisch, 2004) adjacent to the coal mine, now pit lakes, in the southern leizig. Rural villages: Dreiskau-Muckern (469 inh. in 2014), Oelzchau (610 inh. in 2014), Pötzschau (374 inh. in 2014), Mölbis (515 inh. in 2014), Störmthal (512), Auenhain , Wachau, Güldengossa (394 inh. in 2014):…
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Polish-German Border Towns: Models of Transnationalism?
Funded by the British Academy this project investigates the transformations of public space in interface areas of the German-Polish ‘twin towns’ of Frankfurt-Slubice, Guben-Gubin and Görlitz-Zgorzelec along the Oder-Neisse border. Despite modest populations, the border towns have major symbolic value for two nations attempting to write a new chapter in a modern history marked by…
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Example of explanatory research by mean secondary data
A referendum to limit migration from European Union countries took place on 10th February of 2014 in Switzerland. In the score of such event, Alexandre Afonso (2014) and Paul Haydon (2014) did a simple analysis of correlation between the share of migrants population per canton and the share of yes to anti-immigration initiative, based on the results…
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Example of urban mapping research project
Title: Mapping social diversity Phase one involved demographic mapping which would inform the survey in phase two, and then in-depth interviews as part of Project B. Using census data (UK 2001, Poland 2002), the residential distribution of people in terms of demographic characteristics was mapped in two cities: Leeds (UK) and Warsaw (Poland). Variables were…