WebGeoDa Scaffolding is a set of easy-to-use frontend JavaScript toolkits to get started building and exploring client-side geospatial analytics.

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What is this thing?

WebGeoDa is a set of tools, templates, and scaffolding to quickly and easily develop geospatial data dashboards. WebGeoDa builds on the GeoDa suite of geospatial software and extends jsGeoDa through accessible and ready-to-go examples. WebGeoDa uses jsGeoDa (Xun Li & Luc Anselin) as the core of it's geospatial engine, alongside a collection of modern and high-performance libraries for mapping, analysis, data handling, and UI matters.

WebGeoDa capabilities have four areas of complexity. It's easy to learn, but with a high ceiling for customization:

‍💻 Add your geospatial data (GeoJSON), join it to your tabular data (CSV) right in the browser. Specify your variables with a simple JSON specification, and your map is ready to be published!

📑 Customize and add static pages to describe your data and the context of your dashboard. WebGeoDa provides some built-in styling tools using Plain CSS and a reasonably approachable JSX, similar to HTML.

🗺 Add additional map features using Mapbox and Deck.gl, or explore additional data insights through interactive tooltip and sidebar functions.

🦺 Dive directly into the WebGeoDa scaffolding with full control over custom react hooks, the jsGeoDa WebAssembly + WebWorker geospatial engine, a fast Redux-backed state, and extensible and accessible components.

WebGeoDa focuses on enabling exploratory data dashboards with complex data, the need for diverse variables, and high performance in-browser analytics. You can make maps with a variety of color-binning techniques and spatial statistical methods, like Hotspot cluster analysis, through a simple JSON based data and variable configuration.