CORE PROGRAMS

The CSISS Project focuses on the methods, tools, techniques, software, data access, and other services needed to promote and facilitate a novel and integrating approach to social science that is spatially integrated. The Project is based around core programs targeted across the full spectrum from inductive, exploratory science to theory-based, confirmatory science.

The Core Programs include

• Best Practice Examples
  CSISS sponsorship of the development & completion of best practice examples illustrating the use of spatial approaches in the social and behavioral sciences.

• Learning Resources
  Development of a collection of educational resources in support of spatially integrated social science.
  

• National Workshops
  Intensive series of workshops, offered during the summer, covering the principles and practice of spatially integrated social science.
  
  

• Place Based Search
  Development of a unified gazeeter for access to geo-referenced data for the social and behavioral sciences.
  

• Software Tools
  Development of the spatial statistical suite known as SpaceStat into a modern suite of modular and highly user-friendly software for the exploration and analysis of spatial data.