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Smoothing locational measures in spatial interaction networks
Highlights A new approach to smoothing location measures in spatially embedded graphs. It smoothes the graph around a location and then calculates its graph measure. It helps discover true patterns that conventional smoothing approaches often miss. It helps detect patterns in sparse graphs such as migration of a specific age group. It is a generic framework that can be used to smooth various graph measures.
Abstract Spatial interactions such as migration and airline transportation naturally form a location-to-location network (graph) in which a node represents a location (or an area) and a link represents an interaction (flow) between two locations. Locational measures, such as net-flow, centrality, and entropy, are often derived to understand the structural characteristics and the roles of locations in spatial interaction networks. However, due to the small-area problem and the dramatic difference in location sizes (such as population), derived locational measures often exhibit spurious variations, which may conceal the underlying spatial and network structures. This paper introduces a new approach to smoothing locational measures in spatial interaction networks. Different from conventional spatial kernel methods, the new method first smoothes the flows to/from each neighborhood and then calculates its network measure with the smoothed flows. We use county-to-county migration data in the US to demonstrate and evaluate the new smoothing approach. With smoothed net migration rate and entropy measure for each county, we can discover natural regions of attraction (or depletion) and other structural characteristics that the original (unsmoothed) measures fail to reveal. Furthermore, with the new approach, one can also smooth spatial interactions within sub-populations (e.g., different age groups), which are often sparse and impossible to derive meaningful measures if not properly smoothed.
Smoothing locational measures in spatial interaction networks
Highlights A new approach to smoothing location measures in spatially embedded graphs. It smoothes the graph around a location and then calculates its graph measure. It helps discover true patterns that conventional smoothing approaches often miss. It helps detect patterns in sparse graphs such as migration of a specific age group. It is a generic framework that can be used to smooth various graph measures.
Abstract Spatial interactions such as migration and airline transportation naturally form a location-to-location network (graph) in which a node represents a location (or an area) and a link represents an interaction (flow) between two locations. Locational measures, such as net-flow, centrality, and entropy, are often derived to understand the structural characteristics and the roles of locations in spatial interaction networks. However, due to the small-area problem and the dramatic difference in location sizes (such as population), derived locational measures often exhibit spurious variations, which may conceal the underlying spatial and network structures. This paper introduces a new approach to smoothing locational measures in spatial interaction networks. Different from conventional spatial kernel methods, the new method first smoothes the flows to/from each neighborhood and then calculates its network measure with the smoothed flows. We use county-to-county migration data in the US to demonstrate and evaluate the new smoothing approach. With smoothed net migration rate and entropy measure for each county, we can discover natural regions of attraction (or depletion) and other structural characteristics that the original (unsmoothed) measures fail to reveal. Furthermore, with the new approach, one can also smooth spatial interactions within sub-populations (e.g., different age groups), which are often sparse and impossible to derive meaningful measures if not properly smoothed.
Smoothing locational measures in spatial interaction networks
Koylu, Caglar (author) / Guo, Diansheng (author)
Computers, Environments and Urban Systems ; 41 ; 12-25
2013-03-02
14 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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