Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)is continuing to spread globally and still poses a great threat to human health.Since its outbreak,it has had catastrophic effects on human society.A visual method of analyzing COVID-...Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)is continuing to spread globally and still poses a great threat to human health.Since its outbreak,it has had catastrophic effects on human society.A visual method of analyzing COVID-19 case information using spatio-temporal objects with multi-granularity is proposed based on the officially provided case information.This analysis reveals the spread of the epidemic,from the perspective of spatio-temporal objects,to provide references for related research and the formulation of epidemic prevention and control measures.The case information is abstracted,descripted,represented,and analyzed in the form of spatio-temporal objects through the construction of spatio-temporal case objects,multi-level visual expressions,and spatial correlation analysis.The rationality of the method is verified through visualization scenarios of case information statistics for China,Henan cases,and cases related to Shulan.The results show that the proposed method is helpful in the research and judgment of the development trend of the epidemic,the discovery of the transmission law,and the spatial traceability of the cases.It has a good portability and good expansion performance,so it can be used for the visual analysis of case information for other regions and can help users quickly discover the potential knowledge this information contains.展开更多
基金National Key Research and Development Program of China,No.2016YFB0502300。
文摘Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)is continuing to spread globally and still poses a great threat to human health.Since its outbreak,it has had catastrophic effects on human society.A visual method of analyzing COVID-19 case information using spatio-temporal objects with multi-granularity is proposed based on the officially provided case information.This analysis reveals the spread of the epidemic,from the perspective of spatio-temporal objects,to provide references for related research and the formulation of epidemic prevention and control measures.The case information is abstracted,descripted,represented,and analyzed in the form of spatio-temporal objects through the construction of spatio-temporal case objects,multi-level visual expressions,and spatial correlation analysis.The rationality of the method is verified through visualization scenarios of case information statistics for China,Henan cases,and cases related to Shulan.The results show that the proposed method is helpful in the research and judgment of the development trend of the epidemic,the discovery of the transmission law,and the spatial traceability of the cases.It has a good portability and good expansion performance,so it can be used for the visual analysis of case information for other regions and can help users quickly discover the potential knowledge this information contains.
