Publications
Books
2023
Rey, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Wolf, L. J. “Geographic Data Science with Python”.
https://geographicdata.science/book/Peer-reviewed journal articles
2025
Murphy, J.; Mahabir, R.; Phinn, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Navigating coastal resilience: Exploring population density and coastal distance dynamics along the gold coast”. Global Challenges & Regional Science, 3, 100019. 10.1016/j.gcrs.2025.100019
2024
Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Decoding (urban) form and function using spatially explicit deep learning”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 112, 102147. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102147
Kenyon, G.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Robinson, C. “Extracting Features from Satellite Imagery to Understand the Size and Scale of Housing Sub-Markets in Madrid”. Land, 13, 575. 10.3390/land13050575
Kenyon, G.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Robinson, C. “Intra-urban house prices in Madrid following the financial crisis: an exploration of spatial inequality”. npj Urban Sustain, 4, 26. 10.1038/s42949-024-00161-0
2023
Calafiore, A.; Samardzhiev, K.; Rowe, F.; Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Inequalities in experiencing urban functions. An exploration of human digital (geo-)footprints”. Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science. 10.1177/23998083231208
Salat, H.; Carlino, D.; Benitez-Paez, F.; Zanchetta, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Birkin, M. “Synthetic population Catalyst: A micro-simulated population of England with circadian activities”. Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science. 10.1177/23998083231203066
Murphy, J.; Plater, A.; Bird, C.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Spatial-temporal variability: characterisation of a beach system using high resolution radar data”. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. 10.3389/fmars.2023.1142077
Owen, D.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Rowe, F. “Tracking the Transit Divide: A Multilevel Modelling Approach of Urban Inequalities and Train Ridership Disparities in Chicago”. Sustainability, 15(11). 10.3390/su15118821
2022
Arribas-Bel, D.; Fleischmann, M. “Spatial Signatures - Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function”. Habitat International, 128. 10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102641
Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Geographical characterisation of British urban form and function using the spatial signatures framework”. Scientific Data, 9, 546. 10.1038/s41597-022-01640-8
Rowe, F.; Calafiore, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Samardzhiev, K.; Fleischmann, M. “Urban exodus? Understanding human mobility in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic using Meta-Facebook data”. Population, Space and Place, 29, e2637. 10.1002/psp.2637
Patias, N.; Rowe, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Local urban attributes defining ethnically segregated areas across English cities: A multilevel approach”. Cities, 132. 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103967
Samardzhiev, K.; Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Calafiore, A.; Rowe, F. “Functional signatures in Great Britain: A dataset”. Data in Brief, 43. 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108335
Comber, S.; Park, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Dynamic-IMD (D-IMD): Introducing activity spaces to deprivation measurement in London, Birmingham and Liverpool”. Cities, 127. 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103733
Chen, M.; Liu, Y.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. “Assessing the value of user-generated images of urban surroundings for house price estimation”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 226. 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104486
Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Murray, J.; Fleischmann, M. “Estimating generalized measures of local neighbourhood context from multispectral satellite images using a convolutional neural network”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 95. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101802
2021
Patias, N.; Rowe, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Trajectories of neighbourhood inequality in Britain: Unpacking inter-regional socioeconomic imbalances, 1971-2011”. The Geographical Journal. 10.1111/geoj.12420
Rey, S. J.; Anselin, L.; Amaral, P.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Cortes, R. X.; Gaboardi, J. D.; Kang, W.; Knaap, E.; Li, Z.; Lumnitz, S.; Oshan, T. M.; Shao, H.; Wolf, L. J. “The PySAL Ecosystem: Philosophy and Implementation”. Geographical Analysis. 10.1111/gean.12276
Arribas-Bel, D.; Green, M.; Rowe, F.; Singleton, A. “Open data products - A framework for creating valuable analysis ready data”. Journal of Geographical Systems. 10.1007/s10109-021-00363-5
Wolf, L. J.; Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Mobley, L. R. “On Spatial and Platial Dependence: Examining Shrinkage in Spatially Dependent Multilevel Models”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 10.1080/24694452.2020.1841602
Alharbi, Y.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Coenen, F. “Sustainable Development Goal Relational Modelling and Prediction: Introducing the SDG-CAP-EXT Methodology”
Patias, N.; Rowe, F.; Cavazzi, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Sustainable urban development indicators in Great Britain from 2001 to 2016”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 214, 104148. 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104148
Liu, Y.; Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Chen, M. “Identifying and understanding road-constrained areas of interest (AOIs) through spatiotemporal taxi GPS data: A case study in New York City”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 86. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101592
Calafiore, A.; Palmer, G.; Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. “A geographic data science framework for the functional and contextual analysis of human dynamics within global cities”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 85. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101539
2020
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A.; Dolega, L. “Using Convolutional Autoencoders to Extract Visual Features of Leisure and Retail Environments”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 202
Thompson, R. N.; Hollingsworth, T. D.; Isham, V.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Ashby, B.; Britton, T.; Challenor, P.; Chappell, L. H. K.; Clapham, H.; Cunniffe, N. J.; Dawid, A. P.; Donnelly, C. A.; Eggo, R. M.; Funk, S.; Gilbert, N.; Glendinning, P.; Gog, J. R.; Hart, W. S.; Heesterbeek, H.; House, T.; Keeling, M.; Kiss, I. Z.; Kretzschmar, M. E.; Lloyd, A. L.; McBryde, E. S.; McCaw, J. M.; McKinley, T. J.; Miller, J. C.; Morris, M.; O'Neill, P. D.; Parag, K. V.; Pearson, C. A. B.; Pellis, L.; Pulliam, J. R. C.; Ross, J. V.; Tomba, G. S.; Silverman, B. W.; Struchiner, C. J.; Tildesley, M. J.; Trapman, P.; Webb, C. R.; Mollison, D.; Restif, O. “Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1932), 20201405. 10.1098/rspb.2020.1405
Puente-Ajovín, M.; Ramos, A.; Sanz-Gracia, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “How sensitive is city size distribution to the definition of city? The case of Spain”. Economics Letters, 197. 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109643
Franklin, R.; Houlden, V.; Robinson, C.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Delmelle, E. C.; Demšar, U.; Miller, H. J.; O'Sullivan, D. “Who Counts? Gender, Gatekeeping, and Quantitative Human Geography”. The Professional Geographer
Chen, M.; Fahrner, D.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Rowe, F. “A reproducible notebook to acquire, process and analyse satellite imagery”. REGION, 7(2), R15-R46. 10.18335/region.v7i2.295
Olson, A. W.; Zhang, K.; Calderon-Figueroa, F.; Yakubov, R.; Sanner, S.; Silver, D.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Classification and Regression via Integer Optimization for Neighborhood Change”. Geographical Analysis
Chen, M.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. “Quantifying characteristics of the local urban environment through geotagged Flickr photographs and image recognition”. International Journal of Geo-Information, 9, 264. 10.3390/ijgi9040264
Lumnitz, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Cortes, R. X.; Gaboardi, J. D.; Griess, V.; Kang, W.; Oshan, T. M.; Wolf, L.; Rey, S. “splot - visual analytics for spatial statistics”. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(47), 1882. 10.21105/joss.01882
2019
Arribas-Bel, D.; Garcia-Lopez, M.; Viladecans-Marsal, E. “Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm”. Journal of Urban Economics. 10.1016/j.jue.2019.103217
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A.; Dong, G.; Dolega, L. “Building Hierarchies of Retail Centers Using Bayesian Multilevel Models”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 10.1080/24694452.2019.1667219
Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Geographic Data Science”. Geographic Analysis. 10.1111/gean.12194
Stubbings, P.; Peskett, J.; Rowe, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “A Hierarchical Urban Forest Index Using Street-Level Imagery and Deep Learning”. Remote Sensing, 11(12). 10.3390/rs11121395
Arribas-Bel, D. “A course on Geographic Data Science”. The Journal of Open Source Education, 2(14), 42. 10.21105/jose.00042
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Machine learning innovations in address matching: A practical comparison of word2vec and CRFs”. Transactions in GIS, 23(2), 334-348
Liu, Y.; Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D. “A principal component analysis (PCA)-based framework for automated variable selection in geodemographic classification”. Geo-spatial Information Science. 10.1080/10095020.2019.1621549
Davies, A. E.; Dolega, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Buy online collect in-store: Exploring grocery click & collect using a national case study”. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management
Chen, M.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. “Understanding the dynamics of urban areas of interest through volunteered geographic information”. Journal of Geographical Systems
Dong, G.; Alexiou, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Wolf, L. “Inferring neighbourhood quality with property transaction records by using a locally adaptive spatial multi-level model”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
2018
Arribas-Bel, D.; Reades, J. “Geography and Computers: Past, present, and future”. Geography Compass
Arribas-Bel, D.; Bakens, J. “Use and Validation of Location-Based Services in Urban Research: An Example with Dutch Restaurants”. Urban Studies, 56(5), 868:884
Arribas-Bel, D.; Bakens, J. “Spatial dynamics of cultural diversity in the Netherlands”. Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science. 10.1177/2399808318783748
2017
Arribas-Bel, D.; Tranos, E. “Characterizing the Spatial Structure(s) of Cities 'on the fly': the Space-Time Calendar”. Geographical Analysis, 50(2), 162-181. 10.1111/gean.12137
Gerritse, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Concrete agglomeration benefits: do roads improve urban connections or just attract more people?”. Regional Studies, 52(8), 1134-1149
Wolf, L.; Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Stochastic Efficiency of Bayesian MCMC in Spatial Econometric Models: An Empirical Comparison”. Geographical Analysis, 50, 97-119. 10.1111/gean.12135
Arribas-Bel, D.; Patino, J.; Duque, J. “Remote sensing-based measurement of Living Environment Deprivation: Improving classical approaches with machine learning”. PLOS ONE, 12(5), e0176684
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. “'Waiting on the train': The anticipatory (causal) effects of Crossrail in Ealing”. Journal of Transport Geography, 64, 13-22
2016
Arribas-Bel, D.; Nijkamp, P.; Poot, J. “How diverse can measures of segregation be? Results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model”. Environment and Planning A, 48(10), 2046-2066
Folch, D.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Koschinsky, K.; Spielman, S. “Spatial Variation in the Quality of American Community Survey Estimates”. Demography, 53(5), 1535-1554
2015
Arribas-Bel, D.; Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P. “Cultural Diversity and Urban Buzz”. Environment and Planning C -- Government and Policy, 33, 1-17
Arribas-Bel, D.; Gerritse, M. “From manufacturing belt, to rust belt, to college country - A Visual Narrative of the US Urban Growth”. Environment and Planning A, 47(6), 1241-1253
Arribas-Bel, D.; Ramos, A.; Sanz Gracia, F. “The size distribution of employment centers within the U.S. Metropolitan Areas”. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 42, 23-39
Arribas-Bel, D.; Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Steenbruggen, J. “Cyber Cities: Social Media as a Tool for Understanding Cities”. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 8(3), 231-247
2014
Arribas-Bel, D.; Sanz Gracia, F. “The Validity of the Monocentric City Model in a Polycentric Age: US Metropolitan areas in 1990, 2000 and 2010”. Urban Geography, 35(7), 980-997
Arribas-Bel, D. “Accidental, Open and Everywhere: Emerging Data Sources for the Understanding of Cities”. Applied Geography, 49, 45-53
Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Migrant Entrepreneurs as Urban 'Health Angels' -- Contrasts in Growth Strategies”. International Planning Studies
2013
Arribas-Bel, D.; Schmidt, C. R. “Self-organizing maps and the US urban spatial structure”. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2, 362-371
Arribas-Bel, D.; Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P. “Benchmarking of World cities through self-organizing maps”. Cities, 31, 248-257
Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Spatial fixed effects and spatial dependence”. Papers in Regional Science, 92(1), 3-17
Amaral, P. V.; Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Testing for spatial error dependence in probit models”. Letters in Spatial Resource and Sciences, 6(2), 91-101
2012
Arribas-Bel, D.; Koschinsky, J.; Amaral, P. V. “Improving the Multi-Dimensional Comparison of Simulation Results: A Spatial Visualization Approach”. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 5(2), 55-63
Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Smart Cities Perspective - a Comparative European Study by Means of Self-Organizing Maps”. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 25(2), 229-246
Arribas-Bel, D.; Sanz-Gracia, F.; Ximenez-de-Embún, D. P. “Kangaroos, cities and space: a first approach to the Australian urban system”
Kourtit, K.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Nijkamp, P. “High Performers in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands”. The Annals of Regional Science, 48(2), 501-527
2011
Arribas-Bel, D.; Nijkamp, P.; Schoelten, H. “Multidimensional urban sprawl in Europe: a self-organizing map approach”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 35(4), 265-275
Rey, S.; Anselin, L.; Folch, D. C.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Sastré Gutiérrez, M. L.; Interlante, L. “Measuring Spatial Dynamics in Metropolitan Areas”. Economic Development Quarterly, 25(1), 54-64
Conference Proceedings
2026
Wagg, D.; Malleson, N.; Beltran, A.; Tipuric, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Using Earth Observation Informed Agent-Based Models to build a Scenario Planning Digital Twin for Local Energy Policies”. 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-22325
2021
Alharbi, Y.; Coenen, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring and Forecasting using Time Series Analysis”
2020
Alharbi, Y.; Coenen, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Sustainable Development Goal Relational Modelling: Introducing the SDG-CAP Methodology”
Alharbi, Y.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Coenen, F. “Sustainable Development Goal Relational Modelling: Introducing the SDG-RMF Methodology”
2019
Alharbi, Y.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Coenen, F. “Sustainable Development Goal Attainment Prediction: A Hierarchical Framework using Time Series Modelling”
Other academic articles
2026
Arribas-Bel, D.; Franklin, R. “Satellite Salvation? Why satellite imagery is (part of) the answer to our urban data needs”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 53(5). 10.1177/23998083261456945
Beecham, R.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Open spatial science as routine practice: Urban Data/Code contributions from GISRUK 2024”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 53(3). 10.1177/23998083261431404
2025
Arribas-Bel, D.; Metzler, B.; Lynn, S. “AI in land use”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 52(2). 10.1177/23998083251316384
2024
Malleson, N.; Franklin, R.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Cheng, T.; Birkin, M. “Digital twins on trial: Can they actually solve wicked societal problems and change the world for better?”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(6), 1181-1186. 10.1177/23998083241262893
Arribas-Bel, D.; Fleischmann, M. “In praise of (spatial) bundles”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 10.1177/23998083231224151
2021
Arribas-Bel, D.; Alvanides, S.; Batty, M.; Crooks, A.; See, L.; Wolf, L. “Urban data/code: A new EP-B section”. Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(9), 2517-2519. 10.1177/23998083211059670
2020
Rowe, F.; Maier, G.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Rey, S. “The Potential of Notebooks for Scientific Publication, Reproducibility and Dissemination”. REGION, 7(3), E1-E5. 10.18335/region.v7i3.357
2018
Arribas-Bel, D.; Tranos, E. “Big Urban Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Geographical Analysis”. Geographical Analysis. 10.1111/gean.12157
2017
Harris, R.; O'Sullivan, D.; Gahegan, M.; Charlton, M.; Comber, L.; Longley, P.; Brunsdon, C.; Malleson, N.; Heppenstall, A.; Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Evans, A. “More bark than bytes? Reflections on 21+ years of geocomputation”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 44(4), 598-617
2016
Arribas-Bel, D. “London: The Information Capital: 100 Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You View the City. James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti. London: Particular Books (Penguin), 2014.”. Papers in Regional Science, 96(1), 223-224
Arribas-Bel, D. “Geocomputation: A Practical Primer, edited by Chris Brunson and Alex Singleton.”. Journal of Regional Science, 56(1), 176-178
2015
Arribas-Bel, D. “Review of Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS, by Patrice Laglois”. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 42, 564-567
Arribas-Bel, D. “The spoken postcodes”. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2(1), 457-460
Arribas-Bel, D.; Graaff, T. “WooW-II: Workshop on open workflows”. REGION, 2(2), R1-R2
2014
Arribas-Bel, D. “Spatial Data, Analysis, and Regression - A mini course”. REGION, 1(1), R1
2012
Arribas-Bel, D.; Gerritse, M. “Monocentricity? Commuting flows visually.”. Featured Graphic, Environment and Planning A, 44(9), 2041-2042
Book chapters
2024
Arribas-Bel, D.; Graser, A. “Geographic data science: a manifesto”
2023
Arribas-Bel, D.; Rowe, F.; Chen, M.; Comber, S. “An image library: The potential of imagery in (quantitative) social sciences”. 10.4337/9781789903942
2020
Boeing, G.; Arribas-Bel, D. “GIS and Computational Notebooks”. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (1st Quarter 2021 Edition). 10.22224/gistbok/2021.1.2
2018
Arribas-Bel, D. “Statistics, Modelling, and Data Science”. Digital Geographies, 129-140. SAGE
de Graaff, T.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Ozgen, C. “Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity”. Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets, 211-231. Springer, Cham
2017
Arribas-Bel, D.; de Graaff, T.; Rey, S. “Looking at John Snow's cholera map from the XXIst century: a practical primer on Reproducibility and Open Science”. Regional Research Fontiers
2013
Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Arribas-Bel, D. “The Creative Urban Diaspora Economy: A Disparity Analysis among Migrant Entrepreneurs.”. Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies
Other
2025
Arribas-Bel, D. “El papel de la geografía en la revolución de datos: ejemplos desde la ciencia de datos geográficos”.
Geografía, cambio global y vulnerabilidad territorial. Herramientas para el conocimiento de un mundo en transformación permanente. Universidad de La Laguna (Spain).
http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/422642021
Darlington-Pollock, F.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Rowe, F. “What do 'left behind' areas looklike over time?”.
https://localtrust.org.ukRowe, F.; Patias, N.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Policy Brief: Neighbourhood Change and Trajectories of Inequality in Britain, 1971-2011”. UK2070 Commission
Arribas-Bel, D. “Six 15-minute walks capture the diversity, history of Houston neighborhoods”.
Urban Edge Blog. Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University.
https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2019/04/08/maps-six-15-minute-walks-capture-diversity-history-houston-neighborhoods2015
Arribas-Bel, D. “Does Twitter make us view cities differently?”.
University of Birmingham Tumblr blog. May 15th, 2015.
http://unibirmingham.tumblr.com/post/119013810163/does-twitter-make-us-view-cities-differently2014
Arribas-Bel, D. “Open Workflows for Open Regional Science”.
NARSC Newsletter. Issue 1, No.2, June.
http://www.narsc.org/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NARSCNewsJune2014-Final2.pdf2013
Arribas-Bel, D. “Cultural diversity and increased urban buzz”.
Migration: New Developments. Spring 2013. NORFACE Research Programme on Migration.
http://www.norface-migration.org/files/NORFACE_2013_single.pdfWorking Papers
2013
Arribas-Bel, D.; Florax, R. “Heterogeneity and Dependence in Geo-Referenced Micro Data: Random Effects vs True Contagion”
Arribas-Bel, D.; Sanz Gracia, F. “On the existence of agglomeration shadows at the metropolitan level”
2012
Anselin, L.; Amaral, P. V.; Arribas-Bel, D. “Technical Aspects of Implementing GMM Estimation of the Spatial Error Model in PySAL and GeoDaSpace”.
https://geodacenter.asu.edu/drupal_files/sperrorgmm_wp2.pdf
Invited Lectures
Keynote speeches
2026
“Understanding Cities with New Forms of Data”. SPACERAISE summer school, Grand Sasso Science Institute. L'Aquila (Italy)
2022
“Making it easy for Regional Scientists to consider (urban) form & function”. Spatial Economic Analysis Lecture. Regional Science Association International, British and Irish Section. July. Stirling (UK)
2021
“El papel de la Geografía en la revolución de datos: ejemplos desde la Ciencia de Datos Geográficos”. XXVII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Geografía. December. Tenerife (Spain)
“Building 'Geographic Data Science…'”. International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences. November. Mexico
“Building 'Geographic Data Science…'”. Geoinformation Science Symposium (virtual). October. Indonesia
Seminars
2026
“Embeddings for the rest of us”. Universidad de Zaragoza. June
“Making satellites more useful, usable and used in social research and policy”. Universidad de Zaragoza. June
“Making satellites more useful, usable and used in social research and policy”. University of Leeds. June
2025
“The case for satellite imagery in social science and policymaking”. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing (China). May
“The case for satellite imagery in social science and policymaking”. Southwest University. Chongqing (China). May
2023
“Decoding urban form and function in Great Britain”. IOER Forum. Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development. November
“Decoding urban form and function in Great Britain”. Economic Geography and Spatial Economics Seminar Series. London School of Economics. October
“Urban Grammar - Decoding the socio-economic landscape with satellite imagery”. Workshop on Migration, Climate Change and Economic Development. Universidad de Zaragoza. September
“Decoding the Socio-Economic landscape with satellite imagery”. Bank of England. July
“Learning from Deep Learning - Lessons from using computer vision to identify (urban) form and function in open data satellite imagery”. AI and Sustainable Cities workshop. The Alan Turing Institute, UCL & QMUL workshop. June
“Measuring (even) better the Urban-Rural continuum”. JRC Webinar Series. Future of Cities. Online. April
“Developing detailed, consistent and scalable characterisations of urban form & function”. Masters Gathering. Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan (online). April
2022
“Making it easy for regional scientists to consider (urban) form & function”. Economic Data Science Seminar Series. Office for National Statistics. November
“Open by Default - Developing reproducible, computational research”. Royal Statistical Society, Merseyside chapter. Session on open data sources. June
“Urban Analytics@Turing”. Brown bag series. Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. University of Chicago. May
2021
“Building 'Geographic Data Science…'”. Diplomado en Análisis de Datos para las Ciencias Sociales (remote). Universidad de Caldas. Colombia
“Geographic Data Science: why, what, how”. HM Land Registry Data Science seminars
“(Urban) Form & Function in Great Britain”. Urban Analytics monthly meetup (remote). Alan Turing Institute (UK)
“Infusing our understanding of cities with Geographic Data Science”. (remote). ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
“Spatial Signatures -- Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function”. (remote). ESRC Urban Big Data Centre seminar series. University of Glasgow. Glasgow (UK)
2020
“Building 'Geographic Data Science…'”. MSc in Economics seminar, Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina). Online. November
“Urban Analytics - Maximising the value of big data for enhanced urban policy making”. Building Smart Cities with Citizens and for the Public Good: A Symposium. Organised by the Heseltine Institute, University of Liverpool. Liverpool. March
2019
“Using New Forms of Data & Machine Learning to Understand Cities”. Innovation LAB seminar series, OECD. Paris (France). December
“Images as (policy-ready) data”. Acto Anual de Política Regional y Fondos Europeos en España (Annual Event for Regional Policy and European Funds in Spain). Madrid (Spain). November
“Building(s and) Cities”. MacArthur Foundation workshop on Urban Modelling & Complexity Science. Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. London (UK). September
“Infusing Urban Analytics with Geographic Data Science”. Urban Analytics at the interface between environment, human health and behaviour workshop. Tongji University (China). July
“Urban Analysis with Geographic Data Science and New Forms of Data”. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) (Brazil). March
“Infusing Urban and Regional Policy with Geographic Data Science”. Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA) (Brazil). March
“Infusing Urban and Regional analysis with Geographic Data Science”. CUSP Seminars, King's College London. London (UK). January
“Accessing & Visualizing Satellite Data”. Workshop on Ocean and Coastal Monitoring and Modelling for Coastal Zone Management. Commonweath Marine Economies Programme. St. Vincent & Grenada. January
2018
“Infusing Urban and Regional analysis with Geographic Data Science”. University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada). November
“Infusing Urban & Regional work with New Forms of Data”. OECD, Paris (France). September
“Geographic Data Science - What, why, and how”. 300,000Km/s, Barcelona (Spain). March
“An Updatable Index of Neighborhood Desirability”. IEB Seminars, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). February
“New methods for new data? A few urban examples”. Data Science Seminars. ShopDirect, Liverpool. January
2017
“Towards a Geographic Data Science that Works for Everyone”. Spatial Data Science Conference. CARTO HQ, Brooklyn. December
“The Spatial Structure of Cities Through The Lens Of New Forms Of Data”. CASA Seminars. Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. University College London. November
“Looking at Cities with New Lenses”. Roxby Centenary Lecture, University of Liverpool. November
“Bringing new forms of data to the study of cities”. UK Data Service Webinar. February
“Remote Sensing-Based Measurement of Living Environment Deprivation - Improving Classical Approaches with Machine Learning”. GVC/City REDI Seminar Series, University of Birmingham. (Birmingham, UK). February
“Bringing New Forms of Data to the Study of Cities”. Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan). January
2016
“Smart Cities - Examples, Opportunities and Challenges from Urban Research”. Smart Cities: myth or reality? event held by the Telefonica Chair on Smart Cities and the IEB. University of Barcelona (Spain). January
2015
“The (geo)data revolution and the need for (Geographic) Data Science”. Remote lecture for the postgraduate course Research Design in Urban Science, coordinated by Professor Marina Alberti. University of Washington (US). October
“New approaches to measure the spatial structure(s) of cities”. Geospatial Big Data seminars. University College London (UK). March
2014
“Seeing cities through the lens of new (big) data -- Some examples”. University of Liverpool (UK). December
“Seeing cities through the lens of new (big) data”. Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Nuremberg (Germany). September
“Spatial Analysis & Spatial Regression”. Third year module in the Bachelor in Economics' Minor in Geography. Two lectures (3h). University of Utrecht (Netherlands). February
“New data & old Regional Science -- Some examples”. GeoDa Center Brownbag series, Arizona State University (USA). February
“Agglomeration Lights and Shadows within metropolitan areas -- US Cities in 2000”. Department of Global Economics & Management internal seminars, University of Groningen (Netherlands). February
2012
“GeoDaSpace: advanced spatial econometrics made easy”. V Spatial Econometrics Seminar in honour of Jean Paelink, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). October
“An introduction to R (with Nick Malizia)”. Graduates for Integrative Society and Environment Research (GISER), Arizona State University. March
2011
“Studying urban polycentricity in the US with spatial analysis methods”. European Investment Bank. July
2007
“45 minutes on Geographical and Urban Economics”. Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences. December