An alternative map of the United States based on an n-dimensional model of geographic space

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 290-304

  Skupin, André ^a   Esperbé, Aude ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimensionality reduction; Geographic data; High dimensional data; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960409782     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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