«The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through software tools, applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences, and disseminates them through training and support to a growing worldwide community.The GeoDa Center succeeds the Spatial Analysis Laboratory (SAL) which was founded by the new School of Geographical Sciences Director Luc Anselin while at the University of Illinois. This laboratory has now ceased to exist. The new GeoDa Center builds upon the considerable international reputation of SAL and serves as a focal point to leverage currently dispersed faculty interest in geospatial analysis present at ASU. »
