News

March 2013

I had the chance to visit UIUC and give a talk in the CyberGIS speaker series.

February 2013

I presented a paper at the Western Regional Science Association Meetings in Santa Barbara, followed by a trip to the SIAM meetings on Computational Science and Engineering in Boston where I was part of a session on Big Data in Python Mini-symposium organized by Fernando Perez and Titus Brown.

January 2013

PySAL 1.5 is released.

October 2012

I was honored to be asked to give a keynote at the Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium in Yverdon-le-Bains, Switzerland.

Prior to the OSGRS meetings, I gave a talk as part of the GIScience Colloquum at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich.

September 2012

We presented an all-day workshop on PySAL at GIScience 2012 where I also spoke on a panel discussing space-time research.

August 2012

PySAL 1.4 is released.

July 2012

I attended the Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego where we gave two papers, one on Spatial Econometrics in the Age of CyberGIS and the other on CAST.

I gave a talk at SciPy 2012 on PySAL. The last SciPy I attended was 3 years ago and I think the community has grown by leaps and bounds. There is a lot of great work happening with Python and this conference showcases this very nicely.

April 2012

I’m excited to be guest-editing a special issue on Spatial Data Infrastructures, Cyberinfrastructure, and e-Science for GIScience for the International Journal of Geo-Information, together with Michael Finn of USGS.

March 2012

I had a chance to visit Brown University and give a colloquia at S4: Spatial Structures for the Social Sciences.

February 2012

I gave a talk on our work exploring parallelization of PySAL at the Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting in New York.

January 2012

We released PySAL 1.3.

December 2011

I gave a plenary talk at the workshop Future Directions in Spatial Demography in Santa Barbara.

November 2011

Our group gave several talks at the Miami Meetings of the Regional Science Association International.

August 2011

PySAL 1.2 is shipped.