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

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. 2025 Rey, S.J. “Spatial Inequality.” Region 12 (1), p 19-45.
    doi: 10.18335/region.v12i1.563
  2. 2024 Rey, S.J., E. Knaap, Z. Neal, C. Andris. “Unraveling incommensurate spatial partitions: A bipartite graph approach to school-neighborhood interactions and their impacts.” Network and Spatial Economics.
    doi: 10.1007/s11067-024-09655-x.
  3. 2024 Knaap, K. S. Rey. “geosnap: The Geospatial Neighborhood Analysis Package.” Proceedings of the 23rd Python in Science Conference (SciPy 2024).
    doi: 10.25080/FVWM4182.

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