Methodology for Identifying Uniform Regions in Spatial Data and Its Urban Analysis Applications
This paper presents a novel methodology for identifying uniform regions within spatial data, particularly in urban environments. The approach aims to maximize uniformity based on expert-defined criteria and employs a framework that incorporates both spatial and non-spatial attributes to analyze urban building compositions effectively. Preliminary results indicate successful partitioning of spaces into uniform regions, revealing insights into building types and spatial heterogeneity. Future work will focus on improving clustering techniques and conducting sensitivity analyses to enhance the quality of results.
Methodology for Identifying Uniform Regions in Spatial Data and Its Urban Analysis Applications
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A Methodology for Finding Uniform Regions in Spatial Data and its Application to Analyzing the Composition of Cities Zechun Cao UH DMML Advisor: Dr. Eick
Talk Organization Introduction Methodology Preliminary Results Future Work UH-DMML
Urban Computing • Serves for the modern cities with rapid progress of urbanization and civilization. • Aims to understand the nature and science behind the phenomenon. UH-DMML
Research Tasks • Analyzes the composition of the buildings in a city. • Develops framework that captures the spatial heterogeneity by non-spatial attributes. UH-DMML
Research Goals • Partitions a given space into uniform regions based on a domain expert’s notion of uniformity by maximizing a plug-in measure of uniformity. • Provides analysis functions to create summaries for the identified uniform regions. UH-DMML
CLEVER UH-DMML
Interestingness • Purity • Low Variance UH-DMML
Interestingness • Building Type Signature (90%, 5%, 1%, 3%, 0%, 1% ) UH-DMML
Dataset UH-DMML
Preliminary Results Building Type Purity Experiment Cluster#0: Commercial Area UH-DMML
Preliminary Results Building Size Distribution Experiment • 30 out of 36 clusters has the area standard deviation lower than the dataset standard deviation. UH-DMML
Preliminary Results Query Spatial Dataset by Signature UH-DMML
Future Work • Sensitivity analysis of initialization. • Merging the clusters across multiple runs to gain better clustering quality. • Parallel spatial data mining algorithms. UH-DMML