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The Space-Time Aquarium is Full
of Albatrosses: Time Geography, Lifestyle
and Trans-species Geovisual Analytics
Jinfeng Zhao, Pip Forer, Mike Walker
and Todd Dennis
Abstract The volume of research that involves movement track data sets of
increasing size and complexity has grown significantly as data-capture technolo-
gies have developed and expectations for ongoing growth of research opportunities
have hardened. Techniques for describing such data vary, some utilising a purely
geometric measurement while others seeking to involve activity and purpose as
elements of movement description. Such enriched data is typical of sentient
entities that interact with their environment and other sentients. This paper is
solely about such sentient, self-navigating objects. It is also restricted to consid-
eration of movement fields through the lens of geovisual analytics, or equally, in
this case, reviewing geovisual analytics through the lenses of a sample of sentient
movement data sets. Fundamentally the paper asks whether different kinds of
entity require adjustments to given visualisation tools, and if this is so, how such
adjustments might be related to the different processes and geographies of the
entities involved. The arguments are largely based around two 'rich' data sets:
Halifax time use and Muriwai possum movement data sets.
Keywords Movement visualisation
Geovisual analytics
Sentient movement
Animaltracking
Spatio-temporalactivitypatterns
Time geography
