Lesson9
Analysing and Visualising Geographically Referenced Attributes:
Using Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) Methods
Contents
Analysing and Visualising Area Data
Introduction to Area Patterns
- What is area (Lattice) patterns?
- Basic concepts of Tobler First law of Geography
- Basic concepts of spatial autocorrelation
- Types of spatial neighbours
- Spatial weights matrix
Measures of Global Spatial Autocorrelation
- Moran's I: Principles and methods
- Geary's c: Principles and methods
Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA)
- Local Moran's I: Principles and methods
- Local Geary's c: Principles and methods
Hands-on Session
Hands-on Exercise Week 9: Geospatial Data Analysis of Area Patterns
Daily Readings
Moran I [1]
Global Geary's c [2]
Local Indicators of Spatial Association [3]
Spatial Autocorrelation (45 min)[4]
Resources
R Resources
Core libraries
- R [5]
- spdep [6]
- Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, Chapter 9: Area Data and Spatial Autocorrelation [7]
Ancillary libraries
- maptools, tools for reading and handling spatial objects[8]
- sp, classes and methods for spatial data [9]
OpenGeoDa
OpenGeoDa, a free software package that conducts spatial data analysis, geovisualization, spatial autocorrelation and spatial modeling. OpenGeoDa is the cross-platform, open source version of Legacy GeoDa. While Legacy GeoDa only runs on Windows XP, OpenGeoDa runs on different versions of Windows (including XP, Vista and 7), Mac OS, and Linux.
PySAL
PySAL is an open source cross-platform library of spatial analysis functions written in Python. It is intended to support the development of high level applications for spatial analysis.
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