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. “Mind the gap and the map: Measuring distributional and spatial income polarization”, Spatial Economic Analysis,
    doi: 10.1080/17421772.2025.2606783.
  2. 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.
  3. 2026 Embury, J. A. Nara, K. León, T. Herman, S. Rey & M. Solem. “Assessing the effects of geocomputation lessons on secondary school students’ perceptions of geography and computer science”, Annals of the American Association of Geographers,
    doi: 10.1080/24694452.2025.2569516.

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