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An Introduction to Spatial Data Science with GeoDa Volume 2 Clustering Spatial Data
Author: Luc Anselin
Year: 2024
Number of pages: 238
Format: PDF
File size: 34.7 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2024
Number of pages: 238
Format: PDF
File size: 34.7 MB
Language: ENG
This book is the second in a two-volume series that introduces the field of spatial Data Science. It moves beyond pure data exploration to the organization of observations into meaningful groups, i.e., spatial clustering. This constitutes an important component of so-called Unsupervised Learning, a major aspect of modern Machine Learning. The distinctive aspects of the book are both to explore ways to spatialize classic clustering methods through linked maps and graphs, as well as the explicit introduction of spatial contiguity constraints into clustering algorithms. Leveraging a large number of real-world empirical illustrations, readers will gain an understanding of the main concepts and techniques and their relative advantages and disadvantages. The book also constitutes the definitive user’s guide for these methods as implemented in the GeoDa open source software for spatial analysis. It is organized into three major parts, dealing with dimension reduction (principal components, multidimensional scaling, stochastic network embedding), classic clustering methods (hierarchical clustering, k-means, k-medians, k-medoids and spectral clustering), and spatially constrained clustering methods (both hierarchical and partitioning). It closes with an assessment of spatial and non-spatial cluster properties.