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Urban Start-up Agglomeration and Venture Capital Investment (view source)
Revision as of 22:00, 18 September 2019
, 22:00, 18 September 2019→Density Maps
It's useful to lay each year's chosen hulls on top of each other over time (from say 1995 to present, or using the layer with the max number of hulls if the year never achieves the chosen hull count). However, to do this we should expand the hulls, because all hulls have points at their corners and most hulls have points only at their corners. I propose using ST_Expand to increase X and Y distances separately. The method would be to take ((Centroid's X-ST_XMin)+(ST_Xmax-Centroid's X)/2) as the X expansion distance and likewise for Y.
Correction - we definately don't want ST_Expand as it creates a bounding box. We want ST_Buffer, but how big a buffer? Half of the maximum width is easy. Also, transparency doesn't stack within a layer... See https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/91537/how-to-vary-the-transparency-of-symbols-within-a-single-layer-in-arcmap
Visually, it is easy to layer the years, using opacity to build up an effect over time. In the data, it is more difficult. Each year could have thickness one and then we could count the number using ST_intersects while creating the new hulls using ST_Intersection (returns null when no interection). If there are more than one intersections with the highest intersects count, then we could take the largest one as the ultimate one. The centroid of the ultimate intersection would be the heart of a city's startup scene.
