Supporting Functions and Data for Geo-Spatial Analytics Courses
at UTDallas, Texas
Description
A collection of functions and data - mostly from Texas - is provided.
These are used as teaching tools for geo-spatial data analytics courses in the
GISciences program at The University of Texas at Dallas. In addition, several
vignettes illustrate geo-spatial data analytics practices, such as relative
risk kernel density estimations based on food store locations within Dallas
County or the identification of homogenous and spatially contiguous market areas
built on socio-economic, demographic and infrastructure census information. The
spatial resolution of the data-sets ranges from 1623 food store locations, over
geo-referenced areal data of 258 Texan counties, to 529 census tracts as well
as 1669 block groups in Dallas County. Cartographic, specialized regression and
data handling functions are provided.