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Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice provides a broad ranging treatment of the field of spatial data analysis. It begins with an overview of spatial data analysis and the importance of location (place, context and space) in scientific and policy related research. Covering fundamental problems concerning how attributes in geographical space are represented to the latest methods of exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial modeling, it is designed to take the reader through the key areas that underpin the analysis of spatial data, providing a platform from which to view and critically appreciate many of the key areas of the field. Parts of the text are accessible to undergraduate and masters level students, but it also contains sufficient challenging material that it will be of interest to geographers, social and economic scientists, environmental scientists and statisticians, whose research takes them into the area of spatial analysis.

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Aquesta obra s'inscriu dins la millor tradició erudita sobre cartografia catalana de tots els temps. Representa, en aquest sentit, un avenç de primer ordre on els mapes de Catalunya dels segles XVII I XVIII son objecte d'una analisi profunda

Las bases estadísticas ofrecen hoy datos muy completos, tanto en lo que se refiere a las series temporales como a las escalas territoriales. Uno a uno, los propios programas informáticos aportan soluciones graficas con rapidez y versatilidad. Pero aparece un segundo nivel cuando se relacionan o comparan dos o mas valores. Entonces se traspasa un umbral en la comunicacion, se pasa de los datos a la informacion, y se ingresa en un lenguaje diferente, el de la imagen. Tambien nuevo porque sus posibilidades no estan exploradas en su totalidad, a pesar de la inflacion grafica. Este lenguaje es una semiologia grafica que, desde 1967 con BERTIN, dispone de sus medios y reglas y ya no analiza, investiga ni comunica datos sino relaciones. El libro propone un amplio repertorio de imagenes, diagramas y mapas que tienen como tema la Geografia, pero son de aplicacion general. Pues al grafico como herramienta de informacion le importa poco el contenido de los datos.

The TIR-FOR International Commission decided to hold this first TIR-FOR Symposium with the firm belief that it could be a useful platform to raise awareness of the latest advances made by a project whose roots date back over a century, at the same time as providing the opportunity for researchers working in related areas to share their experiences, methodologies and findings. The International Commission has been commissioned by the International Union of Academies to manage the unification, digitisation and updating of these two, initially parallel, projects on the cartographic topography of the Roman world: the Tabula Imperii Romani and the Forma Orbis Romani. Two projects which, in the 20th century, published numerous volumes on paper that cover a considerable proportion of the Roman Empire. In fact, the decision to organise a Symposium, which the International Commission hopes will be held regularly, results from this desire to raise awareness of the digital TIR-FOR project’s scientic potential. The subject chosen for this first Symposium, From Territory Studies to Digital Cartography, is clearly along these lines, with the aim of encouraging reflection and debate regarding the inextricable interaction between research into archaeological sites, territory and arch

La Geografía Humana en las tres últimas décadas ha experimentado transformaciones particularmente significativas, que cobran mayor profundidad en el contexto de crisis de los paradigmas más consolidados de las ciencias sociales y, en particular, a la luz del denominado giro cultural que ha movido el tablero de las mismas. La obra recorre tanto los campos tradicionales de la Geografia Humana#por ejemplo, la geografia rural, regional o urbana# como otros campos emergentes, tales como la geografia de las religiones, del ciberespacio, la geografia en la vida cotidiana o aquella que estudia el turismo, entre muchos otros.