Feedback from GeoDa Users
About the Software
“A FREE terrific program”
"Thanks for the FREE terrific program. In 2 hours it did what I've been working with three different programs to do over the past month." (A user from Oregon State University)
“A very fine piece of software”
"I'd like to express my appreciation for your program GeoDa: It is a very fine piece of software, well designed, useful and rich in options." (A user at the University of Milano Bicocca)
“A hugely important analytical tool”
"I really believe that GeoDa is a hugely important analytical tool that will greatly benefit the NZ health GIS user community. It allows health analysts to go beyond disease mapping of the sort that they are now familiar with through GIS and start to explore the realms of spatial analysis." (A user from the New Zealand Ministry of Health)
"A wonderful stats package "
"I've recently been using GeoDa to do some analyses of global protected area coverage by ecoregions. I wanted to be able to account for spatial autocorrelation in my data, and stumbled upon GeoDa. I have to say it is quite a wonderful stats package and perfectly suited to what I wanted to do." (A user at a national nonprofit organization)
"A big success"
"GeoDa has been a big success with all the people I showed it to. My students also made very nice projects with GeoDa and some of the sample data on the website." (A user at the Universite Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV)
"GeoDa is amazing"
"Thank you for pointing me to GeoDa. It's amazing." (A user from Iowa State University)
"Go team-GeoDa!"
"I have to tell you that I am very thankful for the existence of GeoDa. Go team-GeoDa!" (A user from the University of Colorado).
"Thanks a million"
"I have been using GEODA in my research. Thanks a million for putting that package on the web for general use. You have done a great service for people." (A user from Arizona State University)
“A wonderful package”
"In particular, there is Luc Anselin's GeoDa package, which is free. It's still in beta format, but the final release will be sometime this fall. It's really a wonderful package for all sorts of data exploration and spatial data exploration."(A user on ai-geostats)
"Thanks for wonderful software"
"Thanks to the team behind this wonderful software." (A GIS scientist in Mali/West Africa)
"Thak you very very much sir!"
"I'm doing my Thesis. (Graduated Program) In faculty of Economic. I have recieved GeoDa Program from your website.I learning about manual of program and I reading you working paper. And In my dream in the future I want to be your student Professor. However I'm your student now because I'm read your working paper. Thank you very very much sir. Hope you strike Nobel Price soon." (A student from Thailand)
About GeoDa's Documentation and Support
"I don't think your product needs support!"
"I have used GeoDa quite a bit. I can't see any need whatsoever for support; I don't think your product needs support!" (An analysis programmer from Nova Scotia)
"This listserv is fantastic!"
"This listserv is fantastic! I've received a number of very helpful suggestions. ... Thanks for your time." (A user from the University of South Florida)
"Great customer service and extremely helpful!!!"
"I really appreciate the effort you put into this and the detail of your response. Great customer service and extremely helpful!!! Kudos." (A user from Valdosta State University)
"I have to say that students just love it."
"Congratulations for the GeoDa workbook! I have been using GeoDa in teaching. I have to say that students just love it." (A user from the University of Pecs)
"New manual for GeoDa is great!!!"
"I just wanted to say that the new manual for GeoDa is great!!! With the addition of the sections on spatial regression, it makes GeoDa very useful for teaching and research." (A user at the University of Manitoba)
Thanks SOO much!!
"Thanks SOO much!! This is just what I needed to understand. " (A user at the Bloomberg School of Public Health).
"Thank you for your fast response"
"Thank you for your fast response. I think that GEODA is a wonderful tool." (A user from the Wildlife Conservation Society in Guatemala).
"A wonderful software"
"GeoDa is a wonderful software. Thanks for your wonderful website and all the resources it provided me." (A user at Harvard University)
"Thanks for listserv posting"
"Thanks for your recent posting on the Openspace listserve. It is one of the clearest and most succinct statements on the meaning of spatial heterogeneity that I have seen." (A user from the University of Wisconsin)
"Solved the Problem"
"My reviewers commented that the estimated value of the spatial autoregressive parameter is theoretically impossible in spatial econometrics. ... [On Openspace], you suggested to me that the problem may be due to an error in digitization or weight matrix. I solved that problem and re-estimated, which substantially changed the estimation." (A user in the US)