In an age of big data, volunteered information and complex surveys, spatial analytics is a growing field of interdisciplinary research. Its focus is to make sense of, and extract knowledge from, spatial data through an expanding toolkit of analytical, computational and visual techniques. Written by world-leading experts, and balancing theory with application, the Spatial Analytics and GIS series provides a user-friendly introduction to these methods for students in the geosciences, geographical information science and quantitative social science.