An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis and Visualisation in R

This tutorial series is designed to provide an accessible introduction to techniques for handling, analysing and visualising spatial data in R. R is an open source software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It has a range of bespoke packages which provide additional functionality for handling spatial data and performing complex spatial analysis operations. The practical series uses open data which has been made readily available for each tutorial and demonstrates a range of techniques that are useful for social science research including multivariate analysis, mapping and spatial interpolation.

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Data and Resources

Data: Practical 1: An Introduction to RHTML
Data needed: 2011 Census Data Packs for Local Authority District: Camden (E09000007)

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Data: Practical 2: Data exploration in RHTML
Census Data: "Practical Data"

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Data: Practical 3: Bivariate Plots in RHTML
Census Data: "Practical Data"

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Data: Practical 4: Finding Relationships in RHTML
Census Data: "Practical Data"

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Data: Practical 5: Making maps in RHTML
Census Data: "Practical Data", OA Shapefile: "Camden OA 2011 Shapefile"

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Data: Practical 6: Mapping Point Data in RHTML
Census Data: "Practical Data", OA Shapefile: "Camden OA 2011 Shapefile", House Price Data: "Camden House Sales 2015"

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Data: Practical 7: Using R as a GISHTML
Census Data: "Practical Data", OA Shapefile: "Camden OA 2011 Shapefile", House Sales Shapefile: "House Sales Shapefile"

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Data: Practical 8: Representing Densities in RHTML
OA Shapefile: "Camden OA 2011 Shapefile" House Sales Shapefile: "House Sales Shapefile"

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Data: Practical 9: Measuring Spatial Autocorrelation in RHTML
Census Data: "Practical Data", OA Shapefile: "Camden OA 2011 Shapefile"

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Data: Practical 10: Geographically Weighted Regression in RHTML
Census Data: "Practical Data", OA Shapefile: "Camden OA 2011 Shapefile"

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Data: Practical 11: Interpolating Point Data in RHTML
OA Shapefile: "Camden OA 2011 Shapefile", House Sales Shapefile: "House Sales Shapefile"

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Data: Practical 12: Functions and Loops in RHTML
Census Data: "Practical Data", OA Shapefile: "Camden OA 2011 Shapefile"

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Data: House Sales ShapefileZIP

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Data: Practical DataCSV

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Data: Camden House Sales 2015CSV

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Data: Camden OA 2011 ShapefileZIP

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Data: 2011 Census Data Packs for Local Authority District: Camden (E09000007)ZIP

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Additional Info

Field	Value
Source	ONS, GeoDS
Author	Lansley, Guy; Cheshire, James
Maintainer	James Cheshire
Last Updated	May 8, 2025, 15:21 (UTC)
Created	November 28, 2024, 11:42 (UTC)
Attribution	The data for this research have been provided by the Geographic Data Service (geods.ac.uk), a Smart Data Research UK Investment: ES/Z504464/1.