GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences: Coding, Mapping, and Modeling (Contemporary Sociological Perspectives)

GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences, Second Edition is a foundational text that provides sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry. The book provides a wealth of examples as to why these techniques are worth doing, over and above conventional statistical techniques using STATA, R, SPSS or other statistical packages. This new edition will offer a wealth of screenshots from the open source software, QGIS, to give students step-by-step instruction along with an extensive companion website with new data sets and instructor support material.

《社會科學的地理資訊系統和空間分析，第二版》是一本基礎性的教材，為社會學家、犯罪學家、政治學家和其他社會科學家提供了在他們所選領域進行空間分析的方法論邏輯和技術。本書提供了大量的例子，解釋了為什麼這些技術值得使用，超越了使用STATA、R、SPSS或其他統計軟體的傳統統計技術。這本新版將提供大量來自開源軟體QGIS的截圖，以提供學生逐步指導，並附帶一個包含新數據集和教師支援資料的廣泛附屬網站。