GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL SCIENCE 657

SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS

Spring 2006

Instructor: Donald E. Myers

Office: Mathematics East 243

Telephone:621-6859

E-mail: myers@math.arizona.edu

Webpage http://www.u.arizona.edu/~donaldm

Office Hours: To be announced

Textbook: Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis

                  A. Stewart Fotheringham, Chris Brunsdon and Martin Charlton

                 Sage Publishers

Although the following may be subject to modification after initial discussion with the class, it is expected that the course work will consist of three parts

A. Three Literature Reports

Students will be given a list of topics/problem areas and asked to find papers in the literature on three of these. They will read the papers and prepare a 4-5 page summary/overview of each of the papers. They will be asked to attach a zerox copy of the paper to each report.

B. Data Analyses

Students will analyze four data sets, using a different methodology for each one (using one or more of the software packages listed above). The methodologies will be chosen from the various ones discussed in the course (primarily this means those discussed in the text). A report will be submitted detailing how the analysis was carried out (identifying the software used and the features of the particular software that were used) and giving the results (“screen dumps” of menus and windows can be included in the report). The source and choice of the data sets will be discussed in class.

C. FINAL EXAM, this will be a take home exam. It will be given out on 2 May and due at 4:00 PM on 9 May. Please bring to my office or leave it in the Department of Mathematics office to be placed in my mail box