Reading Shapefiles

Read and write shapefiles and dbf files.

CSV to Points in Python

Turn CSV file with lat/long data to point file with geometry objects.

Choropleth Mapping

Visualization task view 1.

LISA Cluster Maps

Visualization task view 2.

PySAL Viz

Visualization interface 1.

PySAL + Cartopy

Visualization interface 2.

PySAL + geopandas

Visualization interface 3.

PySAL + folium

Visualization interface 4.

Understand, create and manipulate spatial weights objects.

Global Autococorrelation: overview of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) techniques.

Local Autocorrelation.

Spatial Dynamics.

Brief introduction to the main libraries for scientific computing in Python (ipython, numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib).