Spatial thinking is a fundamental skill for understanding, exploring, and analysing our physical environment. This course introduces you to basic concepts and frameworks for explicitly understanding how data about space and time is used to structure problems and analytical approaches. You will examine key philosophies and how this is reflected in current spatial precepts. You will study in detail the characteristics of spatial data representation and reasoning and how this is applied. By the end of the course, you will be able to describe the differences between qualitative and quantitative data about space and time, related methods in representation and analysis, and demonstrate examples of spatial thinking in the real world.