SOS9029 – Spatial Data Analysis
Course content
The use of spatial data in the social sciences has an established position, dating back to the first studies of urban poverty in the 1800s, and studies of elections in the 1900s. New sources of spatial data, obtained through self-reporting – for example geotagged tweets and volunteered information – both blur the distinction between quantitative and qualitative data, and between researcher and informant. Using the kinds of data that are becoming available does, however, depend on r