Paper Info
Title
Terabytes of Tobler: evaluating the first law in a massive, domain-neutral representation of world knowledge
Abstract
The First Law of Geography states, "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." Despite the fact that it is to a large degree what makes "spatial special," the law has never been empirically evaluated on a large, domain-neutral representation of world knowledge. We address the gap in the literature about this critical idea by statistically examining the multitude of entities and relations between entities present across 22 different language editions of Wikipedia. We find that, at least according to the myriad authors of Wikipedia, the First Law is true to an overwhelming extent regardless of language-defined cultural domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-03832-7_6
COSIT
Keywords
Field
DocType
world knowledge,large degree,geography state,domain-neutral representation,critical idea,myriad author,first law,different language edition,near thing,language-defined cultural domain,distant thing
Data science,Spatial analysis,Spatial dependence,Multitude,Terabyte,Computer science,Tobler's first law of geography,Law
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
5756
0302-9743
3-642-03831-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
2.04
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brent Hecht1111773.88
Emily Moxley21568.95