GIS and Machine Learning for Small Area Classifications in Developing Countries
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A very comprehensive, powerful and insightful contribution to the field of Geoinformatics in the Social Sciences. Highly novel both in terms of the study regions it focuses on and in the state-of-the-art methods it engages with and applies.
Dimitris Ballas, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Groningen. The Netherlands
This book represents a clearly written and highly inventive attempt to enrich public policy analysis in developing countries by applying GIS and machine learning for small area classification. It offers both a technical introduction to the topic and a wide range of contemporary illustrative applications from both Nigeria and the Philippines. The book should be of interest to development scholars, methodologists and to human geographers interested in the application of new spatial technologies to Global South contexts.
Roger Burrows, Professor of Cities, School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK
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Since the emergence of contemporary area classifications, population geography has witnessed a renaissance in the area of policy related spatial analysis. Area classifications subsume geodemographic systems which often use data mining techniques and machine learning algorithms to simplify large and complex bodies of information about people and the places in which they live, work and undertake other social activities. Les mer
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This book exposes researchers, practitioners, and students to small area segmentation techniques for understanding, interpreting, and visualizing the configuration, dynamics, and correlates of development policy challenges at small spatial scales. It presents strategic and operational responses to these challenges in cost effective ways. Using two developing countries as case studies, the book connects new transdisciplinary ways of thinking about social and spatial inequalities from a scientific perspective with GIS and Data Science. This offers all stakeholders a framework for engaging in practical dialogue on development policy within urban and rural settings, based on real-world examples.
Features:
The first book to address the huge potential of small area segmentation for sustainable development, combining explanations of concepts, a range of techniques, and current applications.
Includes case studies focused on core challenges that confront developing countries and provides thorough analytical appraisal of issues that resonate with audiences from the Global South.
Combines GIS and machine learning methods for studying interrelated disciplines such as Demography, Urban Science, Sociology, Statistics, Sustainable Development and Public Policy.
Uses a multi-method approach and analytical techniques of primary and secondary data.
Embraces a balanced, chronological, and well sequenced presentation of information, which is very practical for readers.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- CRC Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 246
- ISBN
- 9780367322441
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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A very comprehensive, powerful and insightful contribution to the field of Geoinformatics in the Social Sciences. Highly novel both in terms of the study regions it focuses on and in the state-of-the-art methods it engages with and applies.
Dimitris Ballas, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Groningen. The Netherlands
This book represents a clearly written and highly inventive attempt to enrich public policy analysis in developing countries by applying GIS and machine learning for small area classification. It offers both a technical introduction to the topic and a wide range of contemporary illustrative applications from both Nigeria and the Philippines. The book should be of interest to development scholars, methodologists and to human geographers interested in the application of new spatial technologies to Global South contexts.
Roger Burrows, Professor of Cities, School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK
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