Week 12: Geographic Data

Data Wrangling and Visualization

Author

Prof. Jack Reilly

Published

F2025

Due This Week: Problem Set 10

Readings & Reference Material

Lecture: Geographic Data

Reading

  • Core Reading
    • DMSS, ch 11
  • Vignettes
  • Reference Materials
    • Walker, Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in R
    • Brunsdon and Comber, An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping. An excellent introdution to using R as a GIS package.
    • Brunsdon and Comber, Geographical Data Science and Spatial Data Analysis: An Introduction in R. Despite its name, a companion book to the above, not a replacement. It’s a little higher level.
    • Lovelace, et al. Geocomputation with R. A more in depth guide to spatial data in R.
    • Bivand, et al. Applied Spatial Data Anlaysis with R. Another more in depth guide to spatial data in R.
    • Singleton, et al. Urban Anlaytics.

Due Next Week: Final Project Identification