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.

1: Xinyue Ye and Hui Lin: Research Agenda for Spatial Synthesis: Computational Social Science and Humanities

2: Di Hu: The China Family Tree Geographic Information System

3: Ping Zhang: GIS for Chinese History Research

4: Wei Pan: Digital Historical Yellow River

5: Yongming Xu: Visualizing Classic Chinese Literature

6: Hongwei Xu: Quantifying Spatial Variation in Aggregate Cultural Tolerance

8: Jisheng Shi: Digitalized Enka-style Taipei

9: Tiyan Shen: Research progress on Spatial Demography

11: Qisheng Pan: Economic Impact Analysis for an Energy Efficient Home Improvement Program

12: Jinkai Li: Exploring the dynamics of Carbon emission in China via spatial-temporal analysis

13: Renzhou Gui: Spatial Visualization and Analysis of the Development of High-paid Enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta

14: Zhipeng Gui: High performance spatiotemporal visual analytics technologies and its applications in big socioeconomic data analysis

16: Kun Qin: Analyzing Spatial Patterns of Intergenerational Education Mobility in China

17: Xining Yang: Can Social Media Rescue Child Beggars?

18: Bo Zhao: Spoofing in Geography

19: Bin Jiang: A Complex-Network Perspective on Alexander’s Wholeness

20: Suhong Zhou: Spatial-temporal Behavior Analysis in Urban China

22: Guoqiang Shen: Accessibility of Residential Houses to Community Facilities

23: Wei Tu: Uncovering Online Sharing Vehicle Mobility Patterns from Massive GPS Trajectories

24: Sulei Zheng: Application of Eye Tracking Technology in Humanities, Social Sciences and Geospatial Cognition

Dr. Xinyue Ye (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara and San Diego State University, USA) is Associate Professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA. Dr. Ye integrates urban science and computational science towards smart cities and spatial social network research. He models the space-time perspective of socioeconomic inequality and human dynamics for applications in various domains, such as economic development, disaster response, transportation and land use, public health, and urban crime.  He was elected chair of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)’s Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group in 2014. He also served as president of the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science from 2016 to 2017. Since 2011, he has been serving as Associate Editor of Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, a leading SCI journal in spatial and environmental statistical modeling. Dr. Ye has published over 150 journal articles. He won the national first-place research award from University Economic Development Association in 2011 and received the Regional Development and Planning emerging scholar award from AAG in 2012. Dr. Ye’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Energy.