Session coverage by guest blogger Ian Lo
Session Details
- Presented by Meead Saberi (LinkedIn)
- Location: Room One
- Time: Session #2 (11:40am - 12:15pm)
- Number of Attendees: 21
- Format: Presentation and Q&A
Meead is currently lecturing at Monash University and heads up their City Science team. He was formerly at the University of Chicago and University of Oregon.
Meead Saberi explaining a spatial visualisation
Key points from the presentation:
Meead was first exposed to urban cycling at the University of Oregon
At Monash, he established “City Science” - using open data to create spatial visualisation
Changing Melbourne - growth of population in Melbourne from 2006-2011. 3.5million to 4 million people
Dot maps - each person is represented by one dot on the interactive maps
Mesh block level (the smallest possible unit)
Can scroll left to right to see the changes between 2006 and 2011
Graph plotting natural increase versus immigration to Australia over the years from 1990s to now, and in different states
2011 Melbourne Ethnicity Dot Map
Shows that Melbourne is well-integrated, NOT segregated (unlike in Chicago, where the Whites gather in the north and Blacks in the South)
e.g. Springvale - more Asians; Dandenong - many other ethnicities
Ethnicity is determined by where your grandfather was born - e.g. if your grandfather was born in Italy, then your ethnicity is Italian; if your grandfather was born in Australia (even if your great-grandparent was born in Italy), your ethnicity is Australian
- Categories: Australia & New Zealand, Western European, Eastern European, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, others