Week 8 - Clustering

Slides

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To do before class

• Talk on “Geodemographics and the Internal Structure of Cities” by Prof. Alex Singleton (link to 50min. video).

Related readings

• Chapters 1 and 2 in (Webber & Burrows, 2018) provides a fascinating account of the origins of Geodemographic classifications.
• Chapter 7 in (Brunsdon & Singleton, 2015): Geodemographic Analysis, by Alexandros Alexiou and Alex Singleton.
• (Duque, Ramos, & Suriñach, 2007) is an excellent review of regionalization algorthims, but it is an advanced read.

References

1. Brunsdon, C., & Singleton, A. (2015). Geocomputation: A Practical Primer. SAGE.
2. Duque, J. C., Ramos, R., & Suriñach, J. (2007). Supervised regionalization methods: A survey. International Regional Science Review, 30(3), 195–220.
3. Webber, R., & Burrows, R. (2018). The Predictive Postcode: The Geodemographic Classification of British Society. SAGE.