Spatial synthesis: computational social science and humanities

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: Complex network theory on high-speed transportation systems -- Chapter 11. Qisheng Pan: Economic Impact Analysis for an Energy Efficient Home Improvement Program -- Chapter 12. Jinkai Li: Exploring the dynamics of Carbon emission in China via spatial-temporal analysis -- Chapter 13. Renzhou Gui: Spatial Visualization and Analysis of the Development of High-paid Enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta -- Chapter 14. Zhipeng Gui: High performance spatiotemporal visual analytics technologies and its applications in big socioeconomic data analysis -- Chapter 15. Jianglong Chen: Demystifying the inequality in urbanization in China through the lens of land use -- Chapter 16. Kun Qin: Analyzing Spatial Patterns of Intergenerational Education Mobility in China -- Chapter 17. Xining Yang: Can Social Media Rescue Child Beggars -- Chapter 18. Bo Zhao: Spoofing in Geography -- Chapter 19. Bin Jiang: A Complex-Network Perspective on Alexander’s Wholeness -- Chapter 20. Suhong Zhou: Spatial-temporal Behavior Analysis in Urban China -- Chapter 21. Jun Gao: Studies on tourists’ city space images -- Chapter 22. Guoqiang Shen: Accessibility of Residential Houses to Community Facilities -- Chapter 23. Wei Tu: Uncovering Online Sharing Vehicle Mobility Patterns from Massive GPS Trajectories -- Chapter 24. Sulei Zheng: Application of Eye Tracking Technology in Humanities, Social Sciences and Geospatial Cognition.