This book is the first in a two-volume series that introduces the field of spatial data science. It
offers an accessible overview of the methodology of exploratory spatial data analysis. It also …

The development of specialized software for spatial data analysis has seen rapid growth
since the lack of such tools was lamented in the late 1980s by Haining (1989) and cited as a …

This essay assesses the evolution of the way in which spatial data analytical methods have
been incorporated into software tools over the past two decades. It is part retrospective and …

In this article, we focus on the evolution of the technology that lies at the basis of
implementing spatial econometric methods into software tools. We review the changing …

This resource gives a brief overview of a website and playlist of YouTube videos using open
source software (R, GeoDa, and QGIS) designed to help get scholars up and running with …

OpenGeoDa is the open source successor to GeoDa, a software package designed to
introduce non-experts to spatial data analysis. GeoDa was developed under the auspices of …

Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice, first published in 2003, provides a broad ranging
treatment of the field of spatial data analysis. It begins with an overview of spatial data …

Spatial data are an important source of scientific information. The development of high
capacity and fast desk and laptop computers and the concomitant creation of geographic …

This workbook contains a set of laboratory exercises initally developed for the ICPSR
Summer Program courses on spatial analysis: Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis and …

This is an introductory textbook on spatial analysis and spatial statistics through GIS. Each
chapter presents methods and metrics, explains how to interpret results, and provides …