Friday, February 15, 2013
Room 313 (Hynes Convention Center)
“The Beauty and Benefits of Science” motivates this presentation highlighting relationships between eigenvector spatial filtering spatial statistics methodology and paintings by Susie Rosmarin. The perspective— neighboring locations are more strongly correlated than more distant locations—illustrates that spatial autocorrelation is found everywhere. Emphasis is on roles Geographic Information Systems (GISs) can play in visualizing such interfaces between art and geospatial information science.