https://www.shermstats.com/tags/spatial-statistics/ Recent content in Spatial Statistics on Shermstats Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.shermstats.com/2018/10/21/all-the-things-you-can-do-with-coordinates/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.shermstats.com/2018/10/21/all-the-things-you-can-do-with-coordinates/ You’re looking at a new dataset, and notice that observations have latitude and longitude coordinates. “I can plot these, but what else can I do?”, you think to yourself. Well fear not! The sheer amount of free information you can get with nothing but a latitude and longitude coordinate is astonishing. This is possible due to reverse geocoding, which is the process of converting latitude and longitude coordinates to another geographic unit.