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Subject: [bms-rc33] Meeting - Networks, Data,
     Practices & Visualizations (6~V9 Sep, Paris)

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18th ECTQG, 6–9 September 2013
Paris, France

Session Title: Networking the World II - Data, Practices and Visualizations

Session Organizer: Myriam Baron (baron<at>parisgeo.cnrs.fr)
CNRS UMR Géographie-cités, University Paris Diderot, France
and
Laurent Beauguitte (beauguittelaurent<at>hotmail.com)
CNRS UMR IDEES, Rouen, France

Session Reviewers: Scientific Committee, Session Organizer(s) and
external experts

Session Abstract:

During the first “Networking the world” session (Athens, 2011), three
main topics were discussed: data availability at World-scale, concepts
and methods commonly used, and fields of application. This special
session illustrated the vitality of network researches on geography.
There are still questions needing further investigations. For example,
is the rising accessibility of huge datasets at world scale a real
chance for reflection and analysis? Are conditions of production of
these datasets transparent enough to build a solid reflection?

The aim of this second “Networking the World” special session is to
deepen the reflections especially regarding database issue, geographers'
practices, and the problem of results' visualization.

Concerning data, if they are more and more available, making them
comparable at different geographical levels remains a hard task. So it
is for building datasets allowing multilevel analysis.

Concerning geographers’ practices, two points could be considered: the
way they use methods and concepts developed in other scientific fields
(sociology, physics, etc.); interdisciplinary experiences needed to
improve our geographical knowledge of phenomena studied.

Concerning the visualisation of main results, if producing attractive
“maps” on a world-scale became easier and easier, reading and
interpreting these “beautiful images” remains difficult.

Therefore, papers will cope with following topics:

   * Experiences on database building (comparability, multilevel
     analysis, etc.)

   * Geographers' practices regarding network analysis (methods,
     collaboration)

   * Visualisation tools (relevance, limits for geographical analysis)

Myriam Baron and Laurent Beauguitte (via email to baron<at>parisgeo.cnrs.fr and
beauguittelaurent<at>hotmail.com)

Session supported by the /groupe fmr (flux, matrices, réseaux)/,
http://groupefmr.hypotheses.org

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