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5 - Multivariate Data in Geography

Data Reduction and Clustering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2020

George Grekousis
Affiliation:
Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), China
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Summary

This chapter deals with multivariate statistical methods for data reduction and clustering, commonly used in geographical analysis, including

  • Principal component analysis

  • Factor analysis

  • Multidimensional scaling

  • Hierarchical clustering

  • -means clustering

  • Regionalization (SKATER, REDCAP)

  • Density-based clustering (DBSACN, HDBSCAN, OPTICS)

  • Similarity analysis (cosine similarity)

After a thorough study of the theory and lab sections, you will be able to

  • Understand why multivariate data and statistics are essential in geographical analysis such as in geodemographics

  • Understand that observations in multivariate data sets are points in a multidimensional data space

  • Understand what principal components are and how they can be mapped in a GIS environment

  • Map multidimensional datasets to a 2-D or 3-D representation by multidimensional scaling

  • Understand why hierarchical clustering is important to identify the structure of clusters

  • Use the k-means algorithm in a geographical problem

  • Evaluate the importance of taking into account spatial constraints when clustering (regionalization)

  • Use density-based clustering to analyze large datasets of point entities

  • Apply similarity analysis to identify common characteristics (profiles) on your spatial entities

  • Perform principal component analysis, multidimensional scaling and hierarchical clustering in Matlab

  • Conduct k-means clustering, similarity analysis and spatial clustering in ArcGIS

  • Conduct k-means clusteringand spatial clustering in GeoDa

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Spatial Analysis Methods and Practice
Describe – Explore – Explain through GIS
, pp. 275 - 350
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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