Computers, Cities & Data
🌍 Geographic Data Science@University of Liverpool
🏙️ Urban Analytics@The Alan Turing Institute
📜 (Co-)Editor@Environment & Planning B & JRSS-A
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Our online course on Spatial Data Science in Python has opened registrations once again. This time, we're teaching during May 2026.
10 lessons during May, covering everything from introduction to spatial data to #geoAI using Python open-source stack, part of which I've been actively developing for quite a while. Spatial graphs, autocorrelation, interpolation, point patterns, regression and spatial ML, all covered!
See the details at https://martinfleischmann.net/sds/micro/
New episode of the one and only #GLaDpodcast. For this one, @rsfrankl, Levi and yours truly dust off our oracles to speculate what 2026 (whatever is left of it anyway) has in store for Geography, Life, Geography Life, and Data! Come for the hot takes, stay for Polymarket-style futures contracts!
Happy new year!!! We know, we know, we’ve been in 2026 for a while already (already too long?). But this is the first episode we recorded this year, the first one with Levi as a dad (yay!), and one where the “year” itself will somewhat feature. So we find it apt to start with a cheerful approach. The reason behind this episode is that I’m such a sucker for “best of…” and “what’ll happen in…” compilations. Like the best sci-fi, they tell you a lot more about the present, its hopes and anxieties, than about the year they either review or speculate on. And that’s always interesting to me. So Dani spent most of December listening to “hot takes” from all sorts of podcasts… And here at GLaD HQ, we’re all made of the “hot take” stuff. So, possibly several weeks “late” (in time is overrated!), here it is: our hot takes for 2026.
Yesterday, we (the Imago team) gave a workshop on satellite embeddings for a room with about 50 people from different corners of the UK Government. It was fantastic in every respect. It’s so exciting to see these ideas and technology move at the speed of light from state of the art research to Government. Anything we can do at Imago to facilitate that transfer, we’re here for that!
If you’re curious, materials are available at:
A bit late to post about (though not to publish!), @rsfrankl, Levi and I have a new episode of the #GLaDpodcast out. If nothing else, be enticed by the title (the oldest profession in Geography?!?!?!); if something else, delight in Anthony Robinson’s views on maps, AI, and microwave ovens!
Come for the catchy episode title, stay for the wide-reaching discussion about spatial data, visualization, and cartography. We're joined this time by Anthony Robinson, from Pennsylvania State University, for a conversation about what cartographers do, what cartography looks like in the 21st century, what makes a map, and the challenges of "personal cartography." We've even got some requisite hot takes on spatial analysis and data (...and cartography!).
I enjoyed the last Glad #Podcast (https://gladpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-29-the/) on cartography!
It was great since I always forget that cartography is also a lot about generalization!
The Slop/miccrowave was fun but I am not using much mine and do not pay any subscription for it.
In some way I think geographers should also start to deal with those identity issues :)
cc @darribas
Come for the catchy episode title, stay for the wide-reaching discussion about spatial data, visualization, and cartography. We're joined this time by Anthony Robinson, from Pennsylvania State University, for a conversation about what cartographers do, what cartography looks like in the 21st century, what makes a map, and the challenges of "personal cartography." We've even got some requisite hot takes on spatial analysis and data (...and cartography!).
Just in time before the year’s out, I managed to collate all the reads that made a mark on me this year. As I say at the end: if you(‘ve) read any of the above, remember next time you see me one of the few things I like more than reading is _talking_ about reading. If there are others I should read, hit me up with recommendations. Life’s too short to fill it with mediocre reads.
Martin Fleischmann
Olivier Leroy