Week 7: Intro to Spatial Stats

Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92530704333

Agenda

• This class will be recorded (remind me if I forget!)
• Log in to the class JupyterHub using the UP206A Git Puller to avoid the bottleneck
• It’s been a difficult quarter for many reasons… How are we doing?
• Eliza’s midterm presentation
• Lab: Spatial Auto-correlation

Special Guest for Week 7: Mariah Tso, the Navajo UCLA cartographer

In the news:

• Zapotec in 90006, K’iche’ in 90057: New map highlights L.A.’s Indigenous communities (LA Times)
• We are Here Indigenous Diaspora in Los Angeles CIELO, UCLA AISC, UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA Bunche Center

Readings on Critical Cargography:

Counter Mapping: Zuni Maps. The indigenous Zuni people describe their mapping project and the ways it challenges Western modes of mapping. https://emergencemagazine.org/feature/counter-mapping/

Harley, J. B. (1989). Deconstructing the map. Cartographica: The international journal for geographic information and geovisualization, 26(2), 1-20. This is a classic text by Brian Harley – one of the first Foucauldian analyses of mapping. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/passages/4761530.0003.008/–deconstructing-the-map?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Assignments

Group Assignment #3

• Instructions
• Submit here