Week 12: Geographic Data
 Prof. Jack Reilly
 Fall 2026

Due This Week: Problem Set 10
Lecture: Geographic Data
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Readings & Reference Material
•	Core Reading
–	DMSS, ch 11
•	Vignettes
–	How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
–	Making Middle Earth Maps in R
•	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 introduction 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 Analysis with R. Another more in depth guide to spatial data in R.
–	Singleton, et al. Urban Analytics.
Due Next Week: Final Project Identification, Practicum 2