# User Guide

This user guide covers essential features of libpysal, mostly in the form of interactive Jupyter notebooks. Reading this guide, you will learn:

- work with built-in example spatial data sets

- how to use spatial weights

- how to use spatial graphs

- how to use kernels

Notebooks cover just a small selection of functions as an illustration of principles. For a full overview of libpysal’s capabilities, head to the API.

- Datasets
- Weights
- Graphs
- Kernels