lucylow / geoda

GeoDa: An introduction to spatial data analysis

Acknowledgements

GeoDa TM is built upon several open source libraries and source-code files.

GeoDa is the flagship program of the GeoDa Center, following a long line of software tools developed by Dr. Luc Anselin. It is designed to implement techniques for exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) on lattice data (points and polygons). The free program provides a user friendly and graphical interface to methods of descriptive spatial data analysis, such as spatial autocorrelation statistics, as well as basic spatial regression functionality. The latest version contains several new features such as full space-time data support in all views, a new cartogram, a refined map movie, parallel coordinate plot, 3D visualization, conditional plots (and maps) and spatial regression.

Since its initial release in February 2003, GeoDa's user numbers have increased exponentially, as the chart and map of global users above shows. This includes lab users at universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Cornell. The user community and press embraced the program enthusiastically, calling it a "hugely important analytic tool," a "very fine piece of software," an "exciting development" and more.

Build GeoDa

Please read the detail instructions under directory BuildTools/

Windows

Mac OSX

Linux/Ubuntu

Note: contributions of build scripts under other platforms are welcomed, please follow the structure of building script under BuildTools/.

Internationalization

GeoDa Internationalization (I18n) and Localization(L10n) project aims to provide an online tool that GeoDa users could help to translate the GeoDa UI to different languages.

For crowdsourcing, we use Google Spreadsheet with the public address here. Anyone can access this spreadsheet, and edit each translation.

Contributors:

• @corochasco
• Gulrukh Rakhmatullaeva

Thanks for your contributions!

Dependencies

Below is a list of some of these that we'd like to acknowledge.

• GDAL Libraries, version 1.10

    License: X/MIT style Open Source license
    Authors: many
    Links: http://www.gdal.org/
  

• Boost Libraries, version 1.53

    License: Boost Software License - Version 1.0
    Authors: many
    Links: http://www.boost.org/
          http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
  

• Boost.Polygon Voronoi Library, Boost version 1.53

    License: Boost Software License - Version 1.0
    Author: Andrii Sydorchuk
    Links: http://www.boost.org/
          http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
  

• wxWidgets Cross-Platform GUI Library, version 2.9.4

    License: The wxWindows Library Licence
    Authors: Julian Smart, Robert Roebling, and others
    Links: http://www.wxwidgets.org/
            http://www.opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows.php
  

• CLAPACK Linear Algebra Libraries, version 3.2.1

    Authors: many
    License: Custom by University of Tennessee
    Links: http://www.netlib.org/clapack/
            http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.2/LICENSE
  

• Approximate Nearest Neighbor Library, version 0.1

    Note: Full source of 0.1 release included in kNN directory
    Authors: Sunil Arya and David Mount
    License: See kNN/AHH.h in included source files
    Links: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN/
  

• FastArea.c++ source code

    Note: We have based the source for functions findArea and
    ComputeArea2D in our file GenGeomAlgs.h from FastArea.c++
    in Journal of Graphics Tools, 7(2):9-13, 2002
    Author: Daniel Sunday
    License: unknown
    Links: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10867651.2002.10487556