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.
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Latest Articles
- 2026 Rey, S.J. “Simultaneous spatial systems with incommensurate partitions”, Letters in Spatial Resource Sciences,
doi: 10.1007/s12076-026-00447-0. - 2026 Deng, J., S. Ma, S.J. Rey, G. Hu, “Linking COPD Prevalence with Income Distribution: A Spatial Heterogeneous Compositional Regression via Geographically Weighted Penalized Approach”, Annals of the American Association of Geographers,
doi: 10.1080/24694452.2026.2722318. - 2026 Cortes, R.X., E. Knaap, S.J. Rey, “segregation: Segregation analysis, inference, and decomposition in Python”, Journal of Open Source Software,
doi: 10.21105/joss.11126.
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.