Discriminating Patterns for Empirical Discovery in Geospatial Data

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Discriminating Patterns for Empirical Discovery in Geospatial Data Presenter: Wei Ding [email protected] Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts Boston SF Workshop on GeoSpatial and GeoTemporal informatics ∙ January 8-9

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Presenter: Wei Ding [email protected] Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts Boston. Discriminating Patterns for Empirical Discovery in Geospatial Data. The NSF Workshop on GeoSpatial and GeoTemporal informatics ∙ January 8-9, 2009. Solved or Almost Solved. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Discriminating Patterns for Empirical Discovery in Geospatial Data

Presenter: Wei Ding [email protected] Science DepartmentUniversity of Massachusetts Boston

The NSF Workshop on GeoSpatial and GeoTemporal informatics ∙ January 8-9, 2009

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Geospatial Discriminating Patterns

Spatial Association Rules Spatial Co-Location Patterns Regional Association Patterns

Solved or Almost Solved Spatial Association Rules [Koperski & Han 1995]

Spatial Co-Location Patterns [Huang & Shekhar]

Regional Association Patterns [Ding & Eick]

[huang2004]

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Failed & Missing Modeling causal relationship among

geo-variables Complex chain of mutual interactions Nonlinearity and spatial variability

Efficient pattern summarization Laziness: large amount of patterns “super-patterns”

Robust & practical knowledge discovery tools to build empirical models for domain experts

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What is next?Provide the scientific community with an efficient tool for auto-analyzing the root causes behind observed patterns in geospatial data.