Topics Covered
- Understand the difference between spatial and a-spatial clustering
- Apply standard clustering methods to geographic coordinates
- Assess the effect of including geographical coordinates as cluster variables
- Gain insight into the trade off between attribute similarity and contiguity in classic clustering methods
GeoDa Functions
- Clusters > K Means
- Clusters > K Medoids
- Clusters > Spectral
- Clusters > Hierarchical
- use geometric centroids
- auto weighting
- Clusters > Make Spatial
- Clusters > SC K Means