Wednesday, February 2, 2011

On a positive note

What's the interesting output an average person may actually be able to understand that comes out of OPUS? 

Things like animated GIFs, this one showing the years 2005-2019 of the zone_ln_emp_10_min OPUS indicator in the San Antonio zone model.

There isn't a great deal of change, but since the scale does increase over the years, you can see some of the zones changing to a different green.



Of course that's a pretty terrible story, but it demonstrates that the Mapnik dependency appears to be working correctly to generate visual output on Windows 7 x64, which means much more interesting stories should be able to be successfully told in future, with any luck about how machine learning methods compare to the classical economic modelling of cities.


(Yes I know the image is wider than Blogger's column, but since Blogger's thumbnails aren't animated and CSS doesn't allow quick scaling of images as far as I know - it would be something like img { height:75%; width: 75%; } if allowed ... and this is just a demo...it will do)

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