geosnap.analyze.lincs_from_gdf¶

geosnap.analyze.lincs_from_gdf(gdf, unit_index, temporal_index, cluster_col, periods='all')[source]¶

generate local indicators of neighborhood change from a long-form geodataframe

Parameters:

gdfgeopandas.GeoDataFrame: long-form dataframe holding neighborhood/category labels
unit_indexstr: name of column in dataframe that identifies unique spatial units
temporal_indexstr: name of column in dataframe that identifies unique time periods
cluster_colstr: name of column in dataframe that identifies “neighborhood” labels for each unit
periodslist, optional: list of time periods to include in the analysis. If “all”, then all unique entries in the temporal_index column will be used (by default “all”)

Returns: