Method of Visual Summarizing of Expanding Processes of Housing Lands and its Application to the Analysis of the Mixing Processes of Nonfarm Housing into the Rural Area

Abstract

An exploratory method was developed to summarize a pattern of two dimensional distribution of houses in a certain area applying Exploratory Data Analysis. The method gives the boxplots which show direction, directivity, extent, and the center of the distribution of the housing lands. The application of the method to the suburbs of Tsuchiura city indicated the usefulness of it in the visual understanding and the analysis of the mixing processes.