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I have an entry today at the GDSL’s #30DayMapChallenge with an attempt at “Dimensions”. It’s a story of 64 dimensions, mapped in two, with a bit of an extra dimension.

https://me.darribas.org/2025/11/06/entry-for-daymapchallenge.html

Dani Arribas-Bel Mar 23, 2025

Headed to Detroit for the #AAG2025. Excited to spend a week with fellow Geography nerds in one of the most interesting urban stories of the XXth Century! Catch me at the sessions (image via Rachel, thanks!) we’re organising w/ @rsfrankl, Elizabeth Delmelle and Isabelle Nilsson. Come say hi!

Dani Arribas-Bel Feb 17, 2025

We have three PDRA roles out currently (until March 7th!) looking for candidates at @sdruk.bsky.social Imago. If you're all about making satellite imagery more useful, usable, and used for social scientists, public health folks & policy makers, this is your job!

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Dani Arribas-Bel Dec 18, 2024

Sat down and wrote a bit about the books I've read in 2024. Didn't _love_ all of them, but if you do read The Deluge, please please please, let me know and let's hang! https://darribas.org/anotes/articles/24/books24

Books read in 2024

It’s that time of the year.If you want to see whatlast time I did this looks like, head over here. Spotify just dropped Wrapped.The lists of the best everyth...

Dani Arribas-Bel Oct 29, 2024

On the theme of spooky 👻 Levi, @rsfrankl and myself have a brand new episode of #theGLaDpodcast 🎧🎧🎧 This one, no less, on Digital Twins. You love them, you hate them, you can't ignore them...

📣 https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-18-the-one-about-digital-twins/

Episode 18 - The one about "Digital Twins" | The GLaD Podcast

Today, we’re talking about what some would characterize the “topic” of the XXIst Century (others might perhaps not!): Digital Twins. Are we excited about them? Are our eyes so rolled that they’ll never recover? Or is this excited Vs eyeroll dichotomy not very helpful at all? Above all, what even are Digital Twins? Episode notes - Here is the Commentary Rachel mentions (free access): Malleson, N., Franklin, R., Arribas-Bel, D., Cheng, T., & Birkin, M. (2024). 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083241262893 - The DT project for a bridge in Amsterdam, by The Alan Turing Institute: https://www.turing.ac.uk/about-us/impact/bridging-gap-between-physical-and-digital - AI for continuous environmental project mentioned by Levi: https://waterinnovation.challenges.org/winners/ai-algal-monitoring/ - Larger scale aquatic “digital twin” project at Turing, mentioned by Levi: https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/probabilistic-programming-aquatic-ecosystem-models

Dani Arribas-Bel Oct 17, 2024

🚀🚀🚀 Imago is a go!!! 🚀🚀🚀

Super excited to be part of this SDR UK portfolio of data services! Our Imagery Data Service (code name Imago) will combine the power of satellite imagery—its timeliness, its spatial resolution, its growing range of sensor capability—with state-of-the art computation, computer vision, and stakeholder-led coproduction to ship research-ready data products that help respond to urgent societal challenges in sustainability, wellbeing, and prosperity.

https://www.sdruk.ukri.org/2024/10/17/22-million-for-new-smart-data-services/

Investment in smart data services

Smart Data Research UK announces an investment of £22 million in new data services, enabling researchers to access new forms of smart data.

Smart Data Research UK

Dani Arribas-Bel Nov 28, 2023

Last month I pushed the 10th (!) iteration of the GDSenv container. All your need to do Geographic Data Science, from your laptop to a super-computer, neatly packaged in a box you can take everywhere (where Docker runs)!

Log: https://github.com/darribas/gds_env/releases/tag/v10.0

Docs: https://darribas.org/gds_env/

Release One release here, one release there, pretty soon you have ten! · darribas/gds_env

This release incorporates several new backend features that make building faster and more reproducible, in addition to the usual updates of versions and new libraries. In particular: The Python gd...

GitHub

Dani Arribas-Bel Nov 16, 2023

Last week I gave a 4h (!) lecture on Urban Analytics at the MSc Engineers for in Smart Cities at Université Côte d'Azur. I put together the materials, and the recording of the session (thanks to the team!) at: https://darribas.org/ua_lecture/

Urban Analytics

Dani Arribas-Bel Jul 14, 2023

ust curated a bit my Zoom background at the office #GDSbookInthewild Remember, you too can curate it at https://routledge.com/Geographic-Data-Science-with-Python/Rey-Arribas-Bel-Wolf/p/book/9781032445953 AND/OR curate your web experience (for free) at: https://geographicdata.science/book/

Geographic Data Science with Python

This book provides the tools, the methods, and the theory to meet the challenges of contemporary data science applied to geographic problems and data. In the new world of pervasive, large, frequent, and rapid data, there are new opportunities to understand and analyze the role of geography in everyday life. Geographic Data Science with Python introduces a new way of thinking about analysis, by using geographical and computational reasoning, it shows the reader how to unlock new insights hidden w

Routledge & CRC Press

Dani Arribas-Bel Jul 11, 2023

I wrote some notes on the slide deck by Giles Duranton from last January on new frontiers in Urban Economics: https://darribas.org/anotes/articles/23/duranton_notes

Duranton's notes on Urban Economics

⊕The original tweet that inspired this post ishere but, incase the “bird” decides to change things up, the slide deck discussed isavailable on this World Ba...

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