Grids: a useful tool for rebuilding time series

Towards an ESPON OLAP Cube

Luxembourg, 6th May 2010

Maria José Ramos

Roger Milego Agràs

OLAP CUBE

ESPON 2013 DB Project Partner

Methodology overview

OLAP CUBE

Ref. Grid 1km

Unemployment2001 (Eurostat)

Disaggregation

Population Grid2001 (JRC)

Weighted by

Population

Integration

IntegrationCLC 2000 (EEA) Aggregation

Methodology overviewA “cocktail” of dataINGREDIENTS DIMENSIONS

Ecological Background Corine Land CoverNuts

MEASURES

- grams - ml

MEASURES

- Area - Population - €

OLAP CUBE

Maps

Graphics & Statistics

LimeSugar Fruit Rhum

Daikiri

Let’s taste 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!

Merci bien pour votre attention!

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

ESPON 2013 DB Project Partner