Lesson05

IS415 GeoSpatial Analytics and Applications

About

Weekly Session

Take-home Exercises

Geospatial Analytics Project

Course Resources

Content

• Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA)
  • Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
  • Interactive techniques: Linking and brushing
• Principles of Geographically Weighted Summary Statistics
• Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA)
  • Local Moran and Local Geary
• Measures of local spatial association
  • Getis and Ord’s G-statistics
• Local Moran cluster maps
• Multivariate extensions

Must do

• View
  • Lecture on “Local Spatial Autocorrelation” by Luc Anselin (link to 34min video).

• Read
  • O’Sullivan, D., and Unwin, D. (2010) Geographic Information Analysis, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, Canada. Chapter 5-6. This is an e-book.
  • Bivand, R.S., Pebesma, E. & Gómez-Rubio, V. (2013) Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, 2nd Edition. Springer, New York. Chapter 9: Modeling Areal Data, pp. 263-284. This is an e-book.

• Complete Hands-on Exercise 5. The handout and data sets are available at course eLearn.

References

Methods

Anselin, L. (1995). "Local indicators of spatial association – LISA". Geographical Analysis, 27(4): 93-115.

Getis, A. and Ord, J.K. (1992) “The analysis of spatial association by use of distance statistics”. Geographical Analysis, 24(3): 189-206.

Ord, J.K. and Getis, A. (2010) “Local spatial autocorrelation statistics: Distributional issues and an application”. Geographical Analysis, 27(4): 286-306.

Chapter 9: Modelling Areal Data in Bivand, R.S., Pebesma, E., and Gómez-Rubio, V. (2013) Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, Springer.

Bivand, R.S. 2010 “B.2 Exploratory Spatial data Analysis” in Fischer, M.M., and Getis, A. (2010) Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis: Software Tools, Methods and Applications, Springer.

Applications

Mack, Z.W.V. and Kam T.S. (2018) “Is There Space for Violence?: A Data-driven Approach to the Exploration of Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Conflict” Proceedings of 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (ACM SIGSPATIAL’18). Seattle, Washington, USA, 10 pages.

Singh A., Pathak P.K., Chauhan R.K., and Pan, W. (2011) “Infant and Child Mortality in India in the Last Two Decades: A Geospatial Analysis”. PLoS ONE 6(11), 1:19.