Slides, R code and datasets can be found at http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~zhukov/spatial.html

This workshop on spatial data analysis will be held at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science on 20 January 2010. The workshop is designed as a crash-course in key concepts and methods, with an emphasis on implementation and applications of spatial analysis for social science research. It covers basic data management and visualization, spatial autocorrelation, spatial weights, point pattern analysis, geostatistics, and spatial regression. Each section is followed by an exercise in R, in which participants will implement the techniques and models discussed in the slides.