SEPTEMBER 14, 2005: Seminar

Dr. Paul McDermott (Education) discussed factor analysis and presented his related research.  His presentation was entitled "Employing Community Data to Investigate Social and Structural Dimensions of Urban Neighborhoods"

 

More than 20 faculty, graduate students, and researchers were in attendance.

 

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Follow-Up Lunch

On October 5, 2005, seven people met with Dr. McDermott to discuss ways in which they can incorporate factor analysis into their current research.  Future collaborative projects were also discussed. 

 

OCTOBER 12, 2005: Seminar

Dr. Dana Tomlin (Design) discussed Cartographic Modeling and Raster GIS in a very captivating and visual way. The applicability of GIS and Raster Analysis to various academic disciplines and research studies was explored.  Collaborative opportunities were discussed. 

 

More than 15 faculty, graduate students, and researchers were in attendance.

 

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  • Map Algebra: One Perspective (PDF)

    Map algebra is a general set of conventions, capabilities, and techniques that have been widely adopted for use with geographic information systems (GIS). This paper presents several broad and introductory views of map algebra that attempt to place the methodology in conceptual and historical context. These views focus respectively on the map algebraic data model, its data-processing construct, notational syntax, predecessors, and likely near-term future.

NOVEMBER 9, 2005: Seminar

Dr. Tony Smith (Engineering) discussed Spatial Point Pattern Analysis and present his related research. 

 

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  • Spatial Point Pattern Analysis (PDF)

    These are slides from Dr. Smith's PowerPoint Presentation.  It includes: Point pattern examples, Identification of "Hot Spots," and Determination of cluster size.

Selected Further Readings:

“A Scale-Sensitive Test of Attraction and Repulsion between Spatial Point Patterns”, (2004) Geographical Analysis, 36: 315-331.

 

“A Spatial Mixture Model of Innovation Diffusion”, (2004) [with Sanyoung Song] Geographical Analysis, 36: 119-145.

 

“A Bayesian Probit Model with Spatial Dependencies”, (2004) [with James LeSage] Volume 18 of Advances in Econometrics, pp.127-16.

 

"Aggregation Bias in Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Spatial Autoregressive Processes”, (2004), in Spatial Econometrics and Spatial Statistics, edited by A. Getis, J. Mur and H. Zoller, MacMillan: New York, pp. 53-88.

 

“Predicting Housing Abandonment with the Philadelphia Neighborhood Information System”, (2003), [with A.E. Hillier, D.P. Culhane, and C.D. Tomlin] Journal of Urban Affairs 25(1): 91-105.

 

DECEMBER 14, 2005: Seminar

Dr. Douglas Wiebe (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) discussed Case Control Methods in a Spatial Context and presented his related research on gun violence.  A follow-up lunch was scheduled to continue the discussion and facilitate future collaborations among interested faculty members and graduate students. 

 

JANUARY 11, 2006: Seminar

Dr. Josh Metlay (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) discussed Spatial Point Pattern Analysis and presented his related research on pneumonia.  Collaborative opportunities and future research ideas were discussed.  Positive feedback was received from all those in attendance.

 

FEBRUARY 1, 2006: Special Presentation

Dr. Luc Anselin is one of the leading scholars in spatial statistics. He has spent much of his career developing software to
compute spatial regression models (GeoDa). He spoke about the history of spatial econometrics and the valuation of air quality in hedonic models. More than 30 people attended this seminar.

 

GeoDa is the leading software package for spatial data exploration and regression. Visit the website to learn more about it: https://geoda.uiuc.edu