[ANN] PySAL 1.2

[Serge Rey]

On behalf of the PySAL development team, I'm happy to announce the
official release of PySAL 1.2.

PySAL is a library of tools for spatial data analysis and
geocomputation written in Python. PySAL 1.2, the third official
release of PySAL, brings a number of new features:

- Directional (Space-Time) LISA Analytics
- LISA Markov Spillover Test
- Spatial Markov Homogeneity Tests
- Markov Mobillity Indices
- Support for a wide variety of spatial weights formats including
- AcGIS SWM, Text, DBF
- STATA
- MATLAB MAT
- MatrixMarket MTX
- Lotus WK1
- DAT
- and others
- RTree spatial index
- Getis-Ord G statistics for global and local autocorrelation
- Optimized conditional randomization for local statistics
- Optimized Block/Regime Spatial Weights
- Thin Spatial Sparse Weights Class (WSP)

along with many smaller enhancements and bug fixes.


PySAL modules
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- pysal.core — Core Data Structures and IO
- pysal.cg — Computational Geometry
- pysal.esda — Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
- pysal.inequality — Spatial Inequality Analysis
- pysal.spatial_dynamics — Spatial Dynamics
- pysal.spreg - Regression and Diagnostics
- pysal.region — Spatially Constrained Clustering
- pysal.weights — Spatial Weights
- pysal.FileIO — PySAL FileIO: Module for reading and writing
various file types in a Pythonic way

Downloads
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Binary installers and source distributions are available for download at
http://code.google.com/p/pysal/downloads/list

Documentation
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The documentation site is here 
 http://pysal.org/1.2/contents.html

Web sites
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PySAL's home is here 
 http://pysal.org/

The developer's site is here 
 http://code.google.com/p/pysal/

Mailing Lists
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Please see the developer's list here 
 http://groups.google.com/group/pysal-dev

Help for users is here 
 http://groups.google.com/group/openspace-list

Bug reports
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To search for or report bugs, please see
http://code.google.com/p/pysal/issues/list

License information
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See the file "LICENSE.txt" for information on the history of this
software, terms & conditions for usage, and a DISCLAIMER OF ALL
WARRANTIES.


Many thanks to all who contributed!

Serge, on behalf of the PySAL development team.

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Sergio (Serge) Rey
Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Arizona State University
http://geoplan.asu.edu/rey

Editor, International Regional Science Review
http://irx.sagepub.com