Resources

geometrics — Regional growth & convergence toolkit

A Python package for analyzing regional growth, convergence, and spatial inequality with an Explore/Analyze/Learn workflow.

expdpy — Interactive panel-data exploration

A Python package for exploring and learning panel-data econometrics interactively with fixest-style models.

Provincial GDP and unemployment in Indonesia 1986–2018

Aginta & Mendez (2020)

Overall, pure technical, and scale efficiency across provinces in Indonesia 1990 & 2010

Mendez (2019)

DS4Bolivia — Geospatial development data for Bolivia

A repository of spatial and socio-economic datasets and dashboards across Bolivia's 339 municipalities.

Indonesia514 — District-level data for Indonesia

Geospatial and regional-economic indicators across all 514 Indonesian districts, unified by a common identifier.

Is Indonesia suffering from premature deindustrialization? Regional dynamics explorer

Productivity differences across ASEAN countries: an interactive explorer

Regional income differences across the world: an interactive explorer

Life expectancy vs GDP per capita (cross-section): an interactive explorer

Life expectancy vs GDP per capita (panel): an interactive explorer

GDP per capita vs CO2 emissions across regions: an interactive explorer

Localized monthly time series of nighttime lights (VIIRS-like) 1992–2024

Regional monthly time series of nighttime lights (VIIRS-like) 1992–2024

Localized annual time series of nighttime lights (VIIRS-like) 1992–2024

Regional annual time series of nighttime lights (VIIRS-like) 1992–2024

Localized annual time series of nighttime lights (DMSP-like) 1992–2025

Regional annual time series of nighttime lights (DMSP-like) 1992–2025

Split view of nighttime lights (DMSP-like) across the world 1992–2025

Space-time dynamics of population, luminosity, land cover, and GDP in Cambodia (2013–2019)

Exploring regional disparities in Japan: multi-scale comparison of GDP per capita (1990–2022)

GeoDevelopment Dashboards

Interactive Google Earth Engine apps visualizing nighttime lights and development metrics across regions worldwide.

GeoDevelopment Observatory of Cambodia

A platform integrating satellite and survey indicators to monitor sustainable regional development in Cambodia.

Measuring the evolution of spatial dependence and spatial inequality

Mendez (2021)

Introduction to exploratory space-time data analysis (ESTDA)

Mendez (2021)

Basic spatial econometrics

Mendez (2021)

Making maps in R: using the sf and tmap packages

Mendez (2020)

Spatial autocorrelation analysis in R

Mendez (2020)

Local Moran's I and multiple spatial scales in R

Santos-Marquez (2020)

Spatial regression analysis in R

Mendez (2020)

Geographically weighted regression using the spgwr package in R

Mendez (2020)

Multiscale geographically weighted regression: spatially varying convergence in Indonesia

Mendez

Exploratory spatial data analysis: clusters and dynamics of human development in South America

Mendez

Spatial dynamic panel data modeling in R: cigarette demand across US states

Mendez

The augmented Solow model: a tutorial using R and Stata

Mendez (2021)

Club convergence analysis in Stata

Mendez (2020)

Classical sigma and beta convergence analysis in R: using the REAT 2.1 package

Mendez (2020)

Univariate distribution dynamics in R: using the ggridges package

Mendez (2020)

Bivariate distribution dynamics analysis in R

Mendez (2020)

Beta and sigma convergence across countries: a Stata tutorial

Mendez

Spatial inequality and the Kuznets curve: parametric and semiparametric estimates in R

Mendez

Regional inequality from outer space: predicting GDP from nighttime lights in Python

Mendez

Regional dynamics of VIIRS-like nighttime lights 1992–2023

Mendez

Space-time dynamics of nighttime lights: DMSP-corrected data

Mendez

An interactive exploration of panel data with ExPanDaR

Mendez (2020)

Wrangling and plotting panel data in R: using the panelr package

Mendez (2020)

Introduction to panel data methods in Python

Mendez

Dynamic panel data models in Python: from Nickell bias to system GMM

Mendez

High-dimensional fixed effects regression: an introduction in Python

Mendez

MGWFER: causal spatially varying coefficients via panel fixed effects

Mendez

Long-run vs short-run decompositions in R: the HP filter vs the Hamilton filter

Mendez (2020)

An interactive exploration of cross-sectional data with ExPanDaR

Mendez (2020)

Using the missForest package for imputation of missing values

Santos-Marquez (2020)