Director

Luc Anselin

Luc Anselin

Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College; Director, Center for Spatial Data Science; Senior Fellow, NORC

anselin@uchicago.edu

Luc Anselin is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College, the Director of the new Center for Spatial Data Science and a Senior Fellow at NORC. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

Luc Anselin’s 2023-24 Courses

  • SOCI 20559/30559 (GISC 20559/30559) Spacial Regression Analysis (Autumn)

Instructors

Crystal Bae

Crystal Bae

Assistant Instructional Professor of GIScience

cbae@uchicago.edu

Crystal Bae is Assistant Instructional Professor of GIScience in the Division of the Social Sciences and the College. Her research in spatial cognition focuses on geographic movement visualization, real-world navigation, cognition of neighborhoods and regions, and social decision making. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography with an Emphasis in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a former postdoc of the Movement Data Science Lab at UCSB.

Crystal Bae’s 2023-24 Courses

  • GISC 2/37100 Cartographic Design and Geovisualization (Autumn)
  • GISC 2/37104 Movement Data and Analysis (Autumn)
  • GISC 2/38200 Spatial Analysis Methods in Geographic Information Systems (Winter)
  • GISC 2/37102  Spatial Cognition (Spring)
  • GISC 2/38702 Intro to GIS & Spatial Analysis (Spring; Summer)
Yue Lin

Yue Lin

Assistant Instructional Professor of GIScience

liny2@uchicago.edu

Yue Lin is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Geographic Information Science in the Division of the Social Sciences and the College. Her research is focused on geocomputation, geospatial data science, and digital privacy and justice. Her current work involves developing computational methods to ensure privacy, fidelity, and equity in the dissemination and mining of geospatial data. Yue received her doctorate in Geography from the Ohio State University in 2023.

Yue Lin’s 2023-24 Courses

  • GISC 2/38300  Topics in Geographic Information Science (Autumn)
  • GISC 2/38100 Introduction to Geocomputation (Winter)
  • GISC 2/38800 History of Cartography (Winter)
  • GISC 2/38400 GIScience Practicum (Spring)
  • SOCI 2/30253 Intro to Spatial Data Science (Summer)