CHAPTER: Weights

[darribas]

Thread to discuss chapter on Spatial Weights. It picks discussion up from gds#40.

[darribas]

Final pass:

• [x] Dani
• [ ] Serge
• [x] Levi

[darribas]

Dani final pass tracker, to be edited as we go along:

Things to ensure (from #152 ):

• [x] Library imports (first time inline, afterwards at the top of the chapter
• [x] No aliases on imports (import pandas)
• [x] Ensure no XXX for citations
• [ ] Ensure matplotlib RC file is picked up and figures are standard
• [x] Remove %matplotlib inline
• [x] Graphics
  • No style
  • No title (unless multi-axis titles, but not suptitle)
  • No axes for maps (ax.set_axis_off())
• [x] Code comments are fine if needed
• [x] Hide/remove code cells that we want to hide (see docs here)
• [x] Typesetting check
• [x] General flow of the text
• [ ] Ensure there is a "next step" section at the end of the chapter pointing to further references for the topic (re. #137)

[darribas]

Notes from my review (to be updated as I go along):

• I've streamlined the visualisation section because I though there was too much repetition and not enough content (I've added KNN to the figure for completion)
• My sense is that the use case with boundaries is well above the level of the book, both conceptually and technically. There are snippets I struggle to read through... But I think it's interesting enough it's worth leaving in. I've added a sentence at the beginning signposting this so readers don't freak out.

[darribas]

Edits from @darribas ready at #182, ready to merge by @sjsrey / @ljwolf

[sjsrey]

For Further Reading:

2 chapters Anselin and Rey

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tesg.12480