Analyzing Spatiotemporal Change by Use of National Historical Geographical Information Systems: Population Change during and after the Great Irish Famine

摘要: Several countries have made large investments in building historical Geographical Information Systems (GIS) databases containing census and other quantitative statistics over long periods of time. Making good use these requires approaches that explore spatial temporal change. The authors a variety visualization analysis techniques to population change Ireland during after the Great Famine late 1840s. Importantly, allow differences space time be explored, thus stressing diversity between places, rather than making all places appear same, common criticism many statistical approaches. demonstrate potential geographical variations GIS datasets.