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Exploring space and time dimensions of agriculture and population change in France, 1830 to 1930

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International audience; Understanding the complexities of change over time and space is an important challenge for social scientist; indeed, during the last 10 years geographers and historians have endeavored to bring temporal analysis into Geographic Information Systems methods, but a good solution is still lacking. To move beyond the temporal limits of Spatial Data Analysis tools (ESDA) and such tools as the Geoda freeware of Luc Ancelin and his team, we propose in this paper to demonstrate a space-time analysis tool called "Geographer". The space-time capabilities of this freeware will be illustrated using data on agriculture and demographic change in France from 1830 to 1930.