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Spatial Data Analysis

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Geographical analysis; Geographical data analysis; Spatial analysis

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Methods of data analysis perform logical or mathematical manipulations on data in order to test hypotheses, expose anomalies or patterns, or create summaries or views that expose particular traits. Data often refer to specific locations in some space. To qualify as spatial, the locations must be known and must affect the outcome of the analysis. While many spaces might be relevant, including the space of the human brain or the space of the human genome, the history of spatial data analysis is dominated by location in geographic space, in other words location on or near the surface of the Earth. Thus, geographical and spatial are often essentially synonymous. More formally, spatial data analysis can be defined as a set of techniques devised for the manipulation of data whose outcomes are not invariant under relocation of the objects of interest in some space. The term exploratory spatial data analysis...

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  1. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Michael F. Goodchild

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  1. Michael F. Goodchild
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Correspondence to Michael F. Goodchild .

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Computer Science, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Ralf Hartmut Güting

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Goodchild, M.F. (2018). Spatial Data Analysis. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_353

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