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Spatial Analysis in Population Research

McGill

  • Courses (ArcGIS, QGIS, Python etc.)
  • Mapping
  • Workstations in high-performance lab
  • GIS support

McGill Library

Other Centres

  • - University College London
  • Brown University - Population studies and training center -
  • Arizona State University -
  • University of Chicao -
  • Minnesota Population Center -
  • UC Santa Barbara - 
  • UNC Chapel Hill - Carolina Population Center -
  • - Centre de recherche du CHUM - Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
  • - University of Sheffield
  • - USC
  • - Stanford University

Web resources

  • - a well-maintained site of links and resources
  • "a spatial lens on the National Science Digital Library"
  • in Health Geomatics offered by PopDataBC

Researchers

  • - University of Chicago Center for Spatial Data Science
  • - CUNY Institute for Demographic Research
  • Sébastien Breau - Ï㽶ÊÓƵ - CPD and Dept. of Geography
  • - Harvard School of Public Health - Dept. of Global Health and Population
  • - UNC Carolina Population Center
  • - CIHR Applied Public Health Chair on Urban Interventions and Public Health, . CHUM (Montréal).
  • - Penn State - Department of Sociology and Criminology
  • - University of Connecticut - Sociology
  • - City University of New York, Sociology and (CIDR)
  • - Harvard School of Public Health, Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences and Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
  • - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Carolina Population Center

Useful texts

  • . 2014. and Diègo Legros. Wiley.
  • . 2013. Roger Bivand, Edzer Pebesma, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio. Springer.
  • . 2013. Andrew Lawson.
  • . 2012. Porter, Jeremy R. and Frank M. Howell. Springer: New York: NY.
  • Future Directions in Spatial Demography. Specialist Meeting. Final Report. December 2011. Stephen A. Matthews, Donald G. Janelle and Michael F. Goodchild. Center for Spatial Studies (University of California, Santa Barbara), the Population Research Institute (Pennsylvania State University), and the NIH Advanced Spatial Analysis Training Program.
  • . 2011. Manfred Fisher and Jinfeng Wang. Springer
  • . 2010. Manfred Fisher and Arthur Getis. Springer.
  • . 2010. Luc Anselin and Sergio Rey. Springer.
  • . 2009. A. Stewart Fotheringham and Peter A. Rogerson. Sage.
  • . 2008. Michael Ward and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. .
  • : Theory and Pracitce. 2003. Robert Haining. Cambridge University Press.

Journals

  • - journal 
  • Demographic Research - special collection 2013
  • (Taylor & Francis)
  • (Elsevier)
  • (Elsevier)

Software

  • (available through )
  •   (Open source)
  • (Python)

Data

  • McGill maps and geospatial data
  • Joint Research Centre, the European Commission
  • Land (VIIRS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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