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Measuring the spatial distribution of locations of many entities (trees, atoms, economic activities, ...), and, more precisely, the deviations from purely random configurations, is a powerful method to unravel their underlying interactions. I study here the spatial organization of retail commercial activities. From pure location data, network analysis leads to a community structure that closely follows the commercial classification of the US Department of Labor. The interaction network allows to build a ’quality’ index of optimal location niches for stores, which has been empirically tested.
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Jensen, P. (2009). Analyzing the Localization of Retail Stores with Complex Systems Tools. In: Adams, N.M., Robardet, C., Siebes, A., Boulicaut, JF. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis VIII. IDA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5772. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03915-7_2
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