Free GIS and Spatial Data Analysis Software

Hey guys,

Just a quick post to tell you about this great software I found recently.

MapWindow seems to have great potential to get layers into a diversity of formats, while GeoDa offers all these facilities:

Data Input and Output

• read and write shape files
• copy graphs and maps to clipboard
• save maps and graphs to bitmap file

Spatial Data Manipulation

• create point shape files from text files
• centroids for polygons
• Thiessen polygons from points
• contiguity based spatial weigths for polygons
• distance based spatial weights for points and polygons

Visualization and Queries

• graphs, maps and table
• linking and brushing of all maps and graphs, multiway linking of table
• spatial selection on maps
• query selection in table

Mapping

• quantile and standard deviational maps
• outlier maps: box map and percentile map
• rate mapping and smoothing: excess risk map, Empirical Bayes smoothing, spatial smoothing
• map movie

EDA

• histogram
• box plot
• scatter plot
• full dynamic linking and brushing

Spatial Statistics

• Moran’s I
• Moran scatterplot: univariate, bivariate, EB corrected
• LISA local Moran: univariate, bivariate, EB corrected

I hope is of some use to you! 🙂

How to Batch rename multiple files or folders

Hello,

As you know, to rename lots of files or folders can be a pain so this post is just to share a really nice free software that I found today to rename multiple files or folders. It has been developed by Denis Kozlov and he have also other software that can be of interest to some of you 🙂

http://www.den4b.com/?x=downloads&product=renamer

Enjoy!