Editor
Dr. Dani Arribas-Bel who is a Lecturer in Geographic Data Science and member of the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool (UK) has moved from Books Reviews Editor to become an Editor. Dani is interested in computers, cities and data. In particular, his work focuses on the spatial dimension of cities, from their physical structure to how socio-economic phenomena are spatially distributed. Methodologically, Dani is interested in incorporating new forms of data becoming available into the study of cities, as well as in computational methods such as spatial statistics and machine learning. Dani regularly teaches Geographic Data Science and Python courses, and is member of the development team of PySAL, the Python library for spatial analysis.
Books Reviews Editor
Dr. Seraphim Alvanides is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) and he becomes Books Reviews Editor. He joins the team from being on the Editorial Board. He is a social geographer, with expertise in quantitative methods and Geographical Information Systems and Science. His research and teaching interests involve the analysis of large spatial data related to urban sprawl, land use change, health inequalities and active transport. The substantive question driving his research is to what extent the environment (broadly defined) influences individual behaviours and outcomes. He is an advocate of open data and open source software for scientific research and dissemination.
