Visual exploration of high-dimensional spatial data: requirements and deficits

Geomapping methodology for the GeoCluster Mapping Tool to assess deployment potential of technologies for energy efficiency in buildings

“…Considering geospatial information, there is a huge number of data available and for a variety of sectors (economy, society, policies, EE, technologies). However, these are not in any manner homogeneous, so there data require the possibility to visualized and analysed as high dimensional geo-reference data (Penn, 2005;Uhlenküken, Schmidt, & Streit, 2000). Some of these problems, often related with the explanation of complex spatial phenomena, require an extensive exploratory data analysis based on the search of unknown patterns and spatial relationship without a priori hypotheses.…”