{"id":449,"date":"2011-05-19T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T11:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogs.splintdev.geog.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=449"},"modified":"2013-04-17T20:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T19:40:58","slug":"mdsgeodemographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2011\/mdsgeodemographic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Multidimensional Geodemographic Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mappinglondon_mdsoac.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mappinglondon_mdsoac.png 640w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mappinglondon_mdsoac-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danieljlewis.org\/\">Daniel Lewis<\/a>, a Geography Ph.D student at UCL, has produced this map of inner London, using multidimensional scaling (MDS) to simultaneously depict 41 geodemographic measures of each area, which are used in the <a href=\"http:\/\/areaclassification.org.uk\/\">Output Area Classification<\/a>. Most of the measures are from the 2001 census.<\/p>\n<p>The colours themselves don&#8217;t have any significance &#8211; the hues used are arbitrary groupings based on computed correlations between variables &#8211; but the differences in colour between two areas indicate a distinct demographic difference between the areas. <\/p>\n<p>Daniel <a href=\"http:\/\/danieljlewis.org\/2010\/05\/11\/mds-for-inner-london\/\">talks in more detail about the map<\/a> on his blog. In the post, he suggests that areas which contain similar colours represent the distinct &#8220;villages&#8221; that make up inner London.<\/p>\n<p><i>Census data is Crown Copyright 2010 from CasWeb, boundaries are Crown Copyright 2010 from UKBorders, an Edina\/JISC supplied service.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Lewis, a Geography Ph.D student at UCL, has produced this map of inner London, using multidimensional scaling (MDS) to simultaneously depict 41 geodemographic measures of each area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-demographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}