Open Source Software for Spatial Data Science

Much progress has been made in the development of software tools for spatial analysis since special issue Geographical Analysis appeared 2006, devoted to “Recent advances social sciences” (Rey and Anselin 2006). The 15 some years publication have marked by major changes analytical landscape. Arguably, three important somewhat related phenomena can be distinguished that drove these changes: embedding into data science; growing recognition open science/open source principles empirical work; increasing adoption a literate programming perspective.