Example data sets and helper functions for PySAL
This module is pre-alpha and is part of a refactoring of PySAL.
In [1]: import pysal_examples In [2]: pysal_examples.available() Out[2]: ['10740', 'Line', 'Point', 'Polygon', 'Polygon_Holes', 'arcgis', 'baltim', 'book', 'burkitt', 'calemp', 'chicago', 'columbus', 'desmith', 'geodanet', 'juvenile', 'mexico', 'nat', 'networks', 'newHaven', 'nyc_bikes', 'sacramento2', 'sids2', 'snow_maps', 'south', 'stl', 'street_net_pts', 'taz', 'us_income', 'virginia', 'wmat'] In [3]: pysal_examples.explain('baltim') Out[3]: {'description': 'Baltimore house sales prices and hedonics', 'explanation': ['* baltim.dbf attribute data', '* baltim.shp shape file', '* baltim.shx spatial index file', '* baltim.tri.k12.kwt Kernel weights using a triangular kernel with 12 neares', ' neighbors', '* baltim_k4.gwt Nearest neighbor weights (4nn)', '* baltim_q.gal Queen contiguity file', '* baltimore.geojson', 'Point data, n=211, k= 17.'], 'name': 'baltim'} In [4]: pysal_examples.get_path('baltim.shp') Out[4]: '/home/serge/Documents/p/pysal/src/pysal-reorg/pysal-examples/pysal_examples/baltim/baltim.shp'