GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences: Coding, Mapping, and Modeling

by Parker; Robert Nash

• ISBN13: 9780415989619
• ISBN10: 0415989612
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry. The book contains a wealth of examples as to why these techniques are worth doing, over and above conventional statistical techniques using SPSS or other statistical packages. GIS is a methodological and conceptual approach that allows for the linking together of spatial data, or data that is based on a physical space, with non-spatial data, which can be thought of as any data that contains no direct reference to physical locations.

Table of Contents

Title Page	page 1
Table of Contents	pages 2-4
Introduction	pages 5 -29
Introduction to Geocoding and Mapping	pages 30 - 165
How to Make a Pin Map	pages 33 - 36
Why Geocode?	Pages 37 - 38
The Basics of Geocoding	pages 38 - 49
Ex: The Process of Geocoding	pages 49 - 75
Ex: The Science and Art of Interactive Geocoding	pages 75 - 105
Ex: Exporting a Geocoded Map	pages 105 - 110
Thematic Maps pages	p. 110 - 112
Ex: Creating a Thematic Map from Sample Data	pages 113 - 129
Ex: Racial Profiling Thematic Map	pages 129 - 153
Ex: Juvenile Crime Thematic Map	pages 153 - 165
Summary of
Page	p. 165
Mapping for Analysis, Policy, and Decision Making	pages 166 - 351
Basic Multivariate Displays	pages 168 - 170
Mapping Rates	pages 170 - 173
Ex: Classification or World Armed Rivalries	pages 173 - 184
Ex: Subsets of Youth Violence	pages 184 - 196
Ex: Maps for School Planning pages 196 - 207
Ex: Tessellations and Youth Violence	pages 207 - 229
Ex: Rates of Poverty Over Time in New Orleans	pages 229 - 247
Ex: Patterns of Residency by Ethnicity pages	p. 247 - 25?
Ex: Diffusion of Innovation in the United States	pages 257 - 279
(3D map) Ex: Socioeconomic Conditions in 3D	pages 280 - 287
Ex: Homicide Patterns	pages 287 - 293
Ex: Alcohol Availability and Youth Violence	pages 293 - 297
Ex: Hurricane Katrina's Impact on Children and Schools	pages 297 - 308
Ex: HIV and Armed National Rivalries	pages 308 - 311
Ex: Immigration and Unemployment in the U.S.	pages 311 - 330
Ex: California Education System	pages 330 - 349
Summary of
Pages	p. 350 - 351
Geospatial Modeling and G.I.S.	pages 352 - 415
Why spatial modeling in this book?	pages 353 - 354
Why spatial modeling at all?	Pages 354 - 363
The Meaning of Space in Causal Modeling	pages 363 - 365
Measuring the Impact of Space and Spatial Relationships	pages 365 - 369
Statistical Issues in Spatial Modeling	pages 369 - 375
The Impact of Spatial Autocorrelations and Error Structures in Spatial Modeling	pages 375 - 377
Statistical Modeling of Spatial Data	pages 378 - 382
Types of Data Used in Spatial Models	pages 382 - 385
Choosing Software to Estimate Spatial Models	pages 385 - 387
Ex: A Cross Sectional Spatial Model: Gang Crime And Alcohol Availability	pages 387 - 398
Ex: Multi-Site Studies in Spatial Modeling	pages 399 - 402
Ex: Pooled Cross Sectional and Time Series Spatial Models	pages 402 - 409
Ex: Spatial Models: Limitations, Issues, And Emerging Developments	pages 409 - 414
Conclusion	pages 414 - 415
References	pages 416 - 419
GIS Data Sources	pages 420 - 422
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