The World spatiotemporal analytics and mapping project (WSTAMP): Further progress in discovering, exploring, and mapping spatiotemporal patterns across the world's largest open source data sets

Jesse Piburn, Robert Stewart, Aaron Myers, Alex Sorokine, Eric Axley, David Anderson, Jordan Burdette, Christian Biddle, Alexander Hohl, Ryan Eberle, Jason Kaufman, April Morton

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Abstract

Spatiotemporal (ST) analytics applied to major data sources such as the World Bank and World Health Organization has shown tremendous value in shedding light on the evolution of cultural, health, economic, and geopolitical landscapes on a global level. WSTAMP engages this opportunity by situating analysts, data, and analytics together within a visually rich and computationally rigorous online analysis environment. Since introducing WSTAMP at the First International Workshop on Spatiotemporal Computing, several transformative advances have occurred. Collaboration with human computer interaction experts led to a complete interface redesign that deeply immerses the analyst within a ST context, significantly increases visual and textual content, provides navigational crosswalks for attribute discovery, substantially reduce mouse and keyboard actions, and supports user data uploads. Secondly, the database has been expanded to include over 16,000 attributes, 50 years of time, and 200+ nation states and redesigned to support non-annual, non-national, city, and interaction data. Finally, two new analytics are implemented for analyzing large portfolios of multi-attribute data and measuring the behavioral stability of regions along different dimensions. These advances required substantial new approaches in design, algorithmic innovations, and increased computational efficiency. We report on these advances and inform how others may freely access the tool.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)199-205
Number of pages7
JournalISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Volume4
Issue number4W2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 19 2013
Event2nd International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Computing, ISSC 2017 - Cambridge, United States
Duration: Aug 7 2017Aug 9 2017

Funding

This manuscript has been authored by employees of UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. Accordingly, the United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. This manuscript has been authored by employees of UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy.

Keywords

  • Analytics
  • Data mining
  • Global
  • Spatio-temporal
  • Tool
  • Visualization

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