Big data has now become a strong focus of global interest that is increasingly attracting the
attention of academia, industry, government and other organizations. Big data can be …

Memory is critical to understanding animal movement but has proven challenging to study.
Advances in animal tracking technology, theoretical movement models and cognitive …

Thematic maps show spatial distributions. The theme refers to the phenomena that is shown,
which is often demographical, social, cultural, or economic. The best known thematic map …

Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design
provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of …

This chapter provides an overview of the latest developments in mapping ecosystem
services. It aims to provide an answer to the following two questions: What aspects of …

The rise of informatics has presented new opportunities for analyzing, visualizing, and
interacting with data across the sciences, and biodiversity science is no exception. Recently …

Today, in many spheres of human activity, massive amounts of data are collected and
stored. As the volumes of data available to lawmakers, civil servants, business people and …

Visualization is the process of representing data, information, and knowledge in a visual
form to support the tasks of exploration, confirmation, presentation, and understanding. This …

This Fourth Edition of Cartography: Visualization of Geospatial Data serves as an excellent
introduction to general cartographic principles. It is an examination of the best ways to …

With contributions by Michael Ashikhmin, Michael Gleicher, Naty Hoffman, Garrett Johnson,
Tamara Munzner, Erik Reinhard, Kelvin Sung, William B. Thompson, Peter Willemsen, Brian …