TY - JOUR
T1 - From SpaceStat to CyberGIS
T2 - Twenty Years of Spatial Data Analysis Software
AU - Anselin, Luc
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported in part by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation (OCI-1047916) and the U.S. National Cancer Institute (1R01CA126858-01A1). The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Science Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, or the National Institutes of Health. Earlier versions were presented at a Fellows Colloquium, Research Triangle Institute International, Research Triangle Park, NC, at Geoinformatics 2010, Beijing, China, the NSF Teragrid Workshop on CyberGIS, Washington, DC, and the International Workshop on Cities, Globalization and Development, Toluca, Mexico. Many thanks to my colleagues Serge Rey, Myunghwa Hwang, Mark McCann and Julia Koschinsky for many stimulating conversations on this topic.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - This essay assesses the evolution of the way in which spatial data analytical methods have been incorporated into software tools over the past two decades. It is part retrospective and prospective, going beyond a historical review to outline some ideas about important factors that drove the software development, such as methodological advances, the open source movement and the advent of the Internet and cyberinfrastructure. The review highlights activities carried out by the author and his collaborators and uses SpaceStat, GeoDa, PySAL, and recent spatial analytical web services developed at the ASU GeoDa Center as illustrative examples. It outlines a vision for a spatial econometrics workbench as an example of the incorporation of spatial analytical functionality in a cyberGIS.
AB - This essay assesses the evolution of the way in which spatial data analytical methods have been incorporated into software tools over the past two decades. It is part retrospective and prospective, going beyond a historical review to outline some ideas about important factors that drove the software development, such as methodological advances, the open source movement and the advent of the Internet and cyberinfrastructure. The review highlights activities carried out by the author and his collaborators and uses SpaceStat, GeoDa, PySAL, and recent spatial analytical web services developed at the ASU GeoDa Center as illustrative examples. It outlines a vision for a spatial econometrics workbench as an example of the incorporation of spatial analytical functionality in a cyberGIS.
KW - geographic information science
KW - methods
KW - modeling in GIS
KW - spatial analysis
KW - spatial statistics and spatial econometrics
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U2 - 10.1177/0160017612438615
DO - 10.1177/0160017612438615
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84859016765
SN - 0160-0176
VL - 35
SP - 131
EP - 157
JO - International Regional Science Review
JF - International Regional Science Review
IS - 2
ER -