A framework for using self-organising maps to analyse spatiotemporal patterns, exemplified by analysis of mobile phone usage

Journal of Location Based Services

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 200-221

  Andrienko, Gennady ^a   Andrienko, Natalia ^a   Bak, Peter ^b   Bremm, Sebastian ^c   Keim, Daniel ^b   von Landesberger, Tatiana ^c,d   Pölitz, Christian ^a   Schreck, Tobias ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geovisualisation; Spatio temporal data; Visual cluster analysis

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE VALUES; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA FEATURE; GEOVISUALISATION; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; MOBILE PHONE USAGES; PHONE CALLS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; REAL-WORLD; SELF-ORGANISING MAPS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL SEQUENCES; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; VISUALISATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TIME SERIES; VISUALIZATION;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 78650226883     PISSN: 17489725     EISSN: 17489733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17489725.2010.532816     Document Type: Article

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