15 Intro to Areal Data

Learning Goals

• Explain and illustrate the concept of spatial neighbors
• Explain and illustrate the concept of spatial correlation through Moran’s I
• Develop comfort in working with mapping in R (sf package)
  

Slides from today are available here.

Warm Up

What is spatial correlation? What does it look like with areal data?

Small Group Work

Head to Checkpoint 6 and work with a partner.