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 (…)

Thank you very much for your attention!

For further info: roger.milego@uab.catmariajose.ramos@uab.cat