By Dr. Xinhao Wang, Dr. Rainer vom Hofe (auth.)
Part of the hot Tsinghua college Texts sequence, this booklet presents an updated advent to the elemental equipment on the topic of making plans and human prone supply. those equipment relief planners in answering the subsequent an important questions about human actions inside of a given neighborhood: "Who are they?" (demographic analysis); "What do they do?" (economic analysis); "Where do those actions occur?" (land use analysis), and "How are human actions attached spatially?" (transportation analysis).
This booklet brings those 4 pillars of making plans tools jointly in an introductory textual content certain in the direction of senior point undergraduate and graduate scholars. making plans execs also will locate this booklet a useful reference.
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The age is divided into 10-year cohorts. The 2,000 total population in Boone County is counted for each age cohort. From the histogram chart, we can see that majority 46 Chapter 2 Data and Data Presentation of people in Boone County are younger than 50 years, with the 30 39 age cohort being the highest number. Such information can be quite important in other planning related decisions, such as housing, school, employment, health care etc. 1 Map Presentation Factors Affecting Map Design Before we discuss ways of making and using maps, we need to be reminded that no map can truly represent real world entities.
2% land is used for residential purpose. 14 A pie chart of land use distribution A scatter chart is also called a scatter diagram. Dots are plotted based on the values of two variables. 15 exhibits a scatter diagram for the 2,000 census tract level data in Boone County. The x-axis is the population density in number of people per square kilometer and the y-axis is the percentage of vacant units. A scatter diagram is good for identifying outliers and patterns between two variables. In this example, three outliers deserve further analysis.
1 Reclassification Reclassification is a process that aggregates data at the current or lower levels of measurement in order to reduce the data amount and achieve satisfactory analytical quality. For example, residential land in a municipality is measured at the nominal level as high density residential, rural density, residential, and medium density residential. If a study does not require the detail of different residential land uses we may reclassify these three values into a single value—residential land.