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I am Professor in Geographic Data Science at the Department of Geography and Planning of the University of Liverpool (UK), and Deputy Programme Director for Urban Analytics at the Alan Turing Institute , where I was also ESRC Fellow from 2020 to 2023. At Liverpool, I am a member of the Geographic Data Science Lab.
I am part of the development team of the open source library PySAL
for spatial analysis in Python; and created contextily
, a small Python package to use web tile services in static maps.
Since 2019, I am co-editor of "Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science". Since 2023, together with Rachel Franklin and Levi Wolf, I co-host the GLaD Podcast.
My main research interests are:You can reach me at D.Arribas-Bel [at]
liverpool.ac.uk or at darribas-bel [at]
turing.ac.uk, and you can find me on Mastodon as @darribas@mapstodon.space
, and Twitter as
@darribas