GeoDa
Documentation
GeoDa Workbook
Luc Anselin is currently working on a book version of this workbook for GeoDa. The documentation below will no longer be maintained. The relevant alternative references are these two volumes of the book:
L. Anselin (2024a). An Introduction to Spatial Data Science with GeoDa. Volume 1: Exploring Spatial Data. CRC/Chapman&Hall, Boca Raton, FL. Online version.
L. Anselin (2024b). An Introduction to Spatial Data Science with GeoDa. Volume 2: Clustering Spatial Data. CRC/Chapman&Hall, Boca Raton, FL. Online version.
Overview of Functionality - Latest Version of GeoDa (1.22)
In addition, these resources give an overview of some of the new functionality in GeoDa 1.10+:
- Installing GeoDa and a Quick Tour of GeoDa's Functionality
- Overview, Getting Started, Geovisualization, Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis
- Spatial Weights, Spatial Autocorrelation, Space-Time Exploration, Averages Tool, Spatial Regression
- On local multivariate cluster functionality (new as of GeoDa 1.10). Luc Anselin. (2017). A Local Indicator of Multivariate Spatial Association: Extending Geary's c. Working Paper: Center for Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago.(forthcoming, Geographical Analysis)
- Non-spatial cluster functionality (new as of GeoDa 1.10). Hoon, Michiel de, Seiya Imoto, Satoru Miyano. (2013). The C Clustering Library. The University of Tokyo, Institute of Medical Science, Human Genome Center.
Spatial Data Formats Supported in GeoDa
GeoDa now supports not only shapefiles but many other spatial data formats. Find more information, including setup instructions about these data formats here.
Spatial Regression User's Guide (Book)
The user's guide to the spatial regression functionality in GeoDa can be purchased here:
Older Resources (2003-05)- Legacy GeoDa 0.95i
This workbook (2005) and the two documentation reports (2003) were developed for the Legacy version of GeoDa (0.9.5i) and is still useful for understanding the main functionality. However, many of the screenshots and menu options have been updated since. Here is a 1-page overview of GeoDa 1.8's functionality with references to the workbook chapters.
- Exploring Spatial Data with GeoDa: A Workbook (2005; 244 pp.,5.1Mb)
- GeoDa 0.9.3 User's Guide with overview of features (2003; 125 pp., 2.4Mb)
- GeoDa 0.9.5-i Release Notes with overview of 3D scatter plot, conditional plots, and spatial regression (2003; 64 pp., 1.5Mb)