center for spatial data science (csds)

The UChicago Center for Spatial Data Science offers courses and resources for GIS and other advanced spatial analysis methods. The CSDS develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis; implements them through open source software tools; applies them to policy-relevant research in the social sciences; and disseminates them through education and support to a growing  worldwide  community  of  over  half  a million  spatial analysts.