Sergio J. Rey

Professor of Geography | Spatial Data Scientist

I am a Professor of Geography and Founding Director of the Center for Open Geographical Science at San Diego State University. My research interests are in spatial data science, with a focus on spatial inequality, regional science, and open-source geospatial computing. I am the lead developer of PySAL.

ORCID | Google Scholar | GitHub | ✉️ srey@sdsu.edu

Latest Books

  • 2023 Rey, S.J., D. Arribas-Bel, and L.J. Wolf, Geographical Data Science with Python. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
  • 2022 Rey, S.J. and R.S. Franklin (eds.) Handbook of Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Latest Articles

  1. 2026 Rey, S.J., M. Fleischmann, L. Winkler, “GeoPlanar: Planar enforcement and coverage topology repairing for Python”, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science,
    doi: 10.1177/23998083261470518.
  2. 2026 Rey, S. J. “Mind the gap and the map: Measuring distributional and spatial income polarization”, Spatial Economic Analysis,
    doi: 10.1080/17421772.2025.2606783.
  3. 2026 Trubenstein, P., S. Pahlen, R. Corley, S. Rey, S.J. Wadsworth, C.A. Reynolds “Cognitive functioning in context: leisure activity engagement, social capital, and urbanicity-rurality interplay”, PLOS One,
    doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0339496.

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