Bio

I am a researcher in urban morphology and geographic data science focusing on quantitative analysis and classification of cities, remote sensing, and bits of AI. While not doing the research, I write open source software, promote open science and help others with their data.

I am an author or a maintainer of a range of open scientific software, including GeoPandas, the open source Python package for geographic data handling, momepy, the urban morphology measuring toolkit for Python, Xvec, the tool for vector data cubes, and PySAL, the Python library for spatial analysis.

Projects

                
  Screenshot showing the DemoLand application  
 
DemoLand
 
Spatial modelling for land management predicting the impact of large-scale planning and land use changes on the quality of life.
 
 
  Logo of the urban grammar project  
 
Urban Grammar (Signatures)
 
This project uses satellite imagery, Ordnance Survey data and ML models to characterise urban area use into a number of distinct categories