{"id":433900,"date":"2026-08-24T17:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/?post_type=tnc_col_19837_item&#038;p=433900"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:33:41","slug":"ten-spatial-problems-with-mygeoffice-for-teaching-purposes","status":"publish","type":"tnc_col_19837_item","link":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/scholarly-work-usj\/ten-spatial-problems-with-mygeoffice-for-teaching-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"TEN SPATIAL PROBLEMS WITH MYGEOFFICE\u00a9 FOR TEACHING PURPOSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR A LONG TIME, GEOGRAPHY DID NOT HOLD A SPECIFIC MATHEMATICAL APPROACH FOR ANY INTERPRETATION OF SPACE AND THIS WAS THE KEY REASON WHY GEOGRAPHY DEGREES COVERED A WIDE VARIETY OF SUBJECTS SUCH AS DEMOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY OR TOPOGRAPHY TO FULFILL ITS CURRICULUM. YET FROM THE 90\u2019S, GEOGRAPHY FINALLY CREATED ITS OWN RESEARCH AGENDA TO MEET FOUR VITAL QUESTIONS OF ANY TRUE GEOGRAPHER: \u201cWHERE IS \u2026?\u201d, \u201cIS THERE A GENERAL SPATIAL PATTERN?\u201d, \u201cWHAT ARE THE ANOMALIES?\u201d AND \u201cWHY DO THESE PHENOMENA PURSUE CERTAIN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION?\u201d THE PRESENT REVIEW ARTICLE ADDRESSES TEN DIFFERENT SPATIAL (POINT, REGRESSION AND EVENT) ISSUES FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING AIM WHERE STATISTICS PLAY A MAJOR BACKGROUND ROLE ON THE OUTCOMES OF MYGEOFFICE\u00a9 FREE WEB GIS PLATFORM. THESE INCLUDE CLUSTER ANALYSIS, GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION (GWR), ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES (OLS) REGRESSION, PATH ANALYSIS, MINIMUM SPANNING TREE, LINEAR REGRESSION, SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING AND POINT PATTERNS, FOR INSTANCE. ALTHOUGH THE TECHNICAL VIEWPOINT OF THE ALGORITHMS IS NOT EXPLAINED AT FULLY, THIS REVIEW PAPER MAKES A RATHER STRONG EMPHASIS ON THE RESULT\u2019S INTERPRETATION, THEIR RESPECTIVE MEANING AND WHEN THESE TECHNIQUES SHOULD BE APPLIED IN A LEARNING\/TEACHING CONTEXT.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-433900","tnc_col_19837_item","type-tnc_col_19837_item","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tnc_tax_19818-english","tnc_tax_19716-faculty-of-business-and-law","tnc_tax_19659-journal-article"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":[],"comment_info":0,"featured_img":false,"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/author\/emilychan\/","display_name":"emily chan"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 \u5929 ago","modified":"Updated 5 \u5929 ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 24 8 \u6708, 2026","modified":"Updated on 24 8 \u6708, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 24 8 \u6708, 2026 5:23 \u4e0b\u5348","modified":"Updated on 24 8 \u6708, 2026 6:33 \u4e0b\u5348"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"tnc_tax_19993":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"tnc_tax_19993","name":"SDGs"},"tnc_tax_19818":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/language\/english\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">ENGLISH<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">ENGLISH<\/span>"],"slug":"tnc_tax_19818","name":"LANGUAGE"},"tnc_tax_19716":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/faculty-research-unit\/faculty-of-business-and-law\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW<\/span>"],"slug":"tnc_tax_19716","name":"FACULTY \/ RESEARCH UNIT"},"tnc_tax_19664":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"tnc_tax_19664","name":"SUBJECT"},"tnc_tax_19659":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/resource-type\/journal-article\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Journal Article<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Journal Article<\/span>"],"slug":"tnc_tax_19659","name":"Document Type"}},"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_19837_item\/433900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_19837_item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tnc_col_19837_item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_19837_item\/433900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436663,"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_19837_item\/433900\/revisions\/436663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.usj.edu.mo\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}