[GIS] Visualisation of spatio-temporal data set

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I'm investigating visualisation of a spatio-temporal data-set.

What examples are available, online or offline, of high-quality spatio-temporal data visualisation?

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Geography, and later GISc have been struggling to incorporate 4th dimension since Torsten Hägerstrand brought time into geographic research.

Couple of things from the top of my head:

One of the solutions is to use 'space time aquarium' where in 3D space you can use X and Y to represent location in space and Z to represent time.

Two names that would be helpful exploring this approach would be

  • Mei-Po Kwan - see for example paper here and some more figures here
  • Menno-Jan Kraak - he calls it 'cube'; see for example here

From more recent stuff Fabian Neuhaus is writing his PhD @ UCL and his blog UrbanTick showcases interesting developments in this domain.

For more visualization inspiration you can check some projects from wizards of senseable city lab @ MIT, for example here, here or here.

One more eye candy I stumbled upon is Urban Mobs.

If you want to try building something on your own you might want to have a look at:

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