Spatial Synthesis: Computational Social Science and Humanities [Hardcover]

This book describes how powerful computing technology, emerging big and open data sources, and theoretical perspectives on spatial synthesis have revolutionized the way in which we investigate social sciences and humanities. It summarizes the principles and applications of human-centered computing and spatial social science and humanities research, thereby providing fundamental information that will help shape future research. The book illustrates how big spatiotemporal socioeconomic data facilitate the modelling of individuals economic behavior in space and time and how the outcomes of such models can reveal information about economic trends across spatial scales. It describes how spatial social science and humanities research has shifted from a data-scarce to a data-rich environment. The chapters also describe how a powerful analytical framework for identifying space-time research gaps and frontiers is fundamental to comparative study of spatiotemporal phenomena, and how research topics have evolved from structure and function to dynamic and predictive. As such this book provides an interesting read for researchers, students and all those interested in computational and spatial social sciences and humanities.

Chapter 1. Xinyue Ye and Hui Lin: Research Agenda for Spatial Synthesis: Computational Social Science and Humanities.- Chapter 2. Di Hu: The China Family Tree Geographic Information System.- Chapter 3. Ping Zhang: GIS for Chinese History Research.- Chapter 4. Wei Pan: Digital Historical Yellow River.- Chapter 5. Yongming Xu: Visualizing Classic Chinese Literature.- Chapter 6. Hongwei Xu: Quantifying Spatial Variation in Aggregate Cultural Tolerance.- Chapter 7. Anrong Dang: Conservation of Cave-dwelling Village using Cultural Landscape Gene Theory.- Chapter 8. Jisheng Shi: Digitalized Enka-style Taipei.- Chapter 9. Tiyan Shen: Research progress on Spatial Demography.- Chapter 10. Haoran Yang: ClS>