McGill Geographic Information Centre
- Courses (ArcGIS, QGIS, Python etc.)
- Mapping
- Workstations in high-performance lab
- GIS support
McGill Library
Other Centres
- Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis - University College London
- Brown University - Population studies and training center - Spatial analysis
- Arizona State University - GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
- University of Chicao - The Centre for Spatial Data Science
- Minnesota Population Center - Spatial analysis core
- UC Santa Barbara - Center for Spatial Studies
- UNC Chapel Hill - Carolina Population Center - Spatial analysis services
- Sphere lab - Centre de recherche du CHUM - Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
- Social and Spatial Inequalities - University of Sheffield
- Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute - USC
- Spatial Social Science - Stanford University
Web resources
- Advanced spatial analysis: learning and research resources for the population sciences - a well-maintained site of links and resources
- Teach spatial "a spatial lens on the National Science Digital Library"
- Spatial epidemiology.net
- Spatial econometrics
- Free on-line courses in Health Geomatics offered by PopDataBC
Researchers
- Luc Anselin - University of Chicago Center for Spatial Data Science
- Deborah Balk - CUNY Institute for Demographic Research
- Sébastien Breau - McGill University - CPD and Dept. of Geography
- Marcia Castro - Harvard School of Public Health - Dept. of Global Health and Population
- Barbara Entwisle - UNC Carolina Population Center
- Yan Kestens - CIHR Applied Public Health Chair on Urban Interventions and Public Health, Sphere Lab. CHUM (Montréal).
- Stephen A. Matthews - Penn State - Department of Sociology and Criminology
- Jeremy Pais - University of Connecticut - Sociology
- Jeremy Porter - City University of New York, Sociology and CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR)
- SV (Subu) Subramanian - Harvard School of Public Health, Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences and Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
- Paul Voss - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Carolina Population Center
Useful texts
- Spatial Econometrics Using Microdata. 2014. Jean Dubé (Université Laval) and Diègo Legros. Wiley.
- Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. 2013. Roger Bivand, Edzer Pebesma, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio. Springer.
- Statistical Methods in Spatial Epidemiology. 2013. Andrew Lawson.
- Geographical Sociology: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Applications in the Sociology of Location. 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.
- Spatial Data Analysis: Models, Methods and Techniques. 2011. Manfred Fisher and Jinfeng Wang. Springer
- Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis. 2010. Manfred Fisher and Arthur Getis. Springer.
- Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis. 2010. Luc Anselin and Sergio Rey. Springer.
- The SAGE Handbook of Spatial Analysis. 2009. A. Stewart Fotheringham and Peter A. Rogerson. Sage.
- Spatial Regression Models. 2008. Michael Ward and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Code, data and documentation.
- Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Pracitce. 2003. Robert Haining. Cambridge University Press.
Journals
- Applied spatial analysis and policy
- Spatial demography - journal
- Demographic Research - special collection 2013 Progress in Spatial Demography
- Spatial economic analysis (Taylor & Francis)
- Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology (Elsevier)
- Spatial statistics (Elsevier)
Software
- ArcGIS (available through McGill University Software Site)
- GeoDa (Open source)
- PySal (Python)
Data
- McGill maps and geospatial data
- Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) Joint Research Centre, the European Commission
- Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Land (VIIRS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration