GeoDa in the Classroom

GeoDa is used in more than two dozen labs across the U.S. and in the world. Resources for teaching include the GeoDa workbook, spatial autocorrelation demo, and sample datasets. Below are several examples of courses that use GeoDa:

Institution: Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
Course: Spatial Analysis for the Undergraduate Social Science Curriculum
Instructor: Professor Michael Goodchild

Institution: Mississippi State University
Course: Spatial Analysis of Social Data
Instructor: Professor Frank M. Howell

Institution: Norges Handelshøyskole
Course: Empirisk markedsanalyse (Empirical market analysis)
Instructor: Professor Roger Bivand

Institution: University of California at Santa Barbara
Course 1: Regional Development Theory
Course 2: Urban Economic Geography (GEOG 108E)
Resources: GeoDa Labs
Instructor: Professor Stuart Sweeney

Institution: University of Canterbury
Course: GIS and Spatial Analysis
Instructor: Professor Clive Sabel

Institution: University of Michigan
Course: Environmental Spatial Data Analysis
Instructor: Professor Dan G. Brown

Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Course: Urban and Regional Analysis
Instructor: Professor Ed Feser

• Sample student assignments of this course involving GeoDa:
• Growth hub criteria for Charleston-North Charleston MSA identify “gap”
• Recommendation for federal intra-urban growth hub grant in Lansing, MI
• High Poverty, Segregated Area Adjacent to Manufacturing Cluster Targeted for Growth

Institution: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Course: Spatial Data Analysis for Social Scientists
Instructor: Professor Paul R. Voss