[SciPy-User] [ANN] PySAL 1.5

[Serge Rey]

= PySAL 1.5 Released =

On behalf of the PySAL development team, I'm happy to announce the
official release of PySAL 1.5.

PySAL is a library of tools for spatial data analysis and
geocomputation written in Python. PySAL 1.5, the sixth official
release of PySAL brings the following key enhancements:

===spatial regression (spreg)===

Adding regime classes for all GM methods and OLS available in pysal.spreg,
i.e. OLS, TSLS, spatial lag models, spatial error models and SARAR models. All
tests and heteroskedasticity corrections/estimators currently available in
pysal.spreg apply to regime models (e.g. White, HAC and KP-HET). With the
regimes, it is possible to estimate models that have:

 * Common or regime-specific error variance; Common or regime-specific
 * Coefficients for all variables or for a selection of variables
 * Common or regime-specific constant term


===FileIO===

  * support for kwt

===contrib modules (sandbox modules, not in core)===

  * shapely
  * mapping
  * network
  * spatial databases

among the 116 commits and bug fixes since the last release, 6 months ago.

==PySAL modules==

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

PySAL can also be installed with pip or easy_install.


==Documentation==
The documentation site is here
http://pysal.geodacenter.org/1.5


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

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

==Mailing Lists==
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 and feature requests==
To search for or report bugs, as well as request enhancements, please see
http://code.google.com/p/pysal/issues/list

==License information==
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 [http://code.google.com/p/pysal/source/browse/tags/1.5/THANKS.txt
all who contributed!]

Serge, on behalf of the PySAL development team.

-- 
Sergio (Serge) Rey
Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
Arizona State University
http://geoplan.asu.edu/rey

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