Functionality
Projects in GeoDa basically consist of a shapefile that defines the lattice data, and an attribute table in a .dbf format. The attribute table can be edited inside GeoDa. GeoDa can produce histograms, box plots, and scatterplots to conduct simple exploratory analyses of the data.
The package is specialized on exploratory data analysis and geovisualization, where it exploits techniques for dynamic linking and brushing. This means that when the user has multiple views or windows in a project, selecting an object in one of them will highlight the same object in all other windows.
GeoDa also is capable of producing histograms, box plots, Scatter plots to conduct simple exploratory analyses of the data. The most important thing, however, is the capability of mapping and linking those statistical devices with the spatial distribution of the phenomenon that the users are studying.
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