Transforming and combining data: Towards the ESPON Cube
Alcalá de Henares, 9-10 June 2010
Maria José Ramos
Roger Milego Agràs
OLAP CUBE
Methodology overviewA “cocktail” of dataINGREDIENTS DIMENSIONS
Ecological Background Corine Land CoverNuts
MEASURES
-grams -ml
MEASURES
-Area -Population -GDP
OLAP CUBE
Maps
Graphics & Statistics
LimeSugar Fruit Rhum
Daikiri
Methodology overviewFrom ingredient to “cocktail”
OLAP CUBE
Ref. Grid 1km
Unemployment2001 (Eurostat)
Disaggregation
Population Grid2001 (JRC)
Weighted by
Population
Integration
IntegrationCLC 2000 (EEA) Aggregation
Tasting the “cocktail”
Combining data from different times
Combining data from different geometries (e.g. NUTS 2003, NUTS 2006)
Combining continuous data (e.g. CLC) with discrete data (e.g. NUTS3)
Complex combinations (…)
