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#SDSC20 online will bring together spatial problem solvers at the intersection of Data Science & GIS

The conference will feature a series of keynote presentations and workshops that cover cutting-edge techniques in spatial modeling, machine learning, spatial statistics, geo-processing at scale, and novel uses of spatial data sets.

The online event will bring an even larger, more global group together - so be prepared for an interactive, engaging experience with fellow Spatial Data Science experts.

> Take a look back at SDSC2019 highlights
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Previous editions

Who attended?

2019, 2018 and 2017

SDSC Visitors by job sector

Job Category of Registrants

SDSC Visitors by job category

What to expect?

Agenda

Keep your eyes peeled, we’ll soon be adding new speakers and sessions here.

Take a look back at Spatial Data Science Conference 2019 highlights

Speakers

Aga Kreglewska
Data Scientist

Aga Kreglewska

Aga is a Data Scientist at Deliveroo building capacity within the DS team to analyse spatial data. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and HOT OSM contributor.

Michele Ferretti
Data Scientist

Michele Ferretti

Michele Ferretti is a Data Scientist at Booking.com. He is also finishing a PhD in the Department of Geography at King's College London, focusing on the role of geospatial technologies and "Smart Cities".

Laura Lewis
Data Scientist

Laura Lewis

Laura is a Data scientist with 8 years of experience in data science (including machine learning and deep learning), analysis and research in startups, government and academia.

Javier de la Torre
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Javier de la Torre

Javier founded CARTO with a vision to democratize data analysis and visualization. Under his leadership, it has grown into one of the fastest growing geospatial companies in the world.

Paul Goodship
Data Scientist

Paul Goodship

Paul is a Data Scientist at Atkins, where he models, analyses and creates built environment data, focusing on unlocking and using spatial data for development opportunities.

Stephanie Sy
Founder & CEO

Stephanie Sy

Stephanie Sy is the founder and CEO of Thinking Machines, a global data science consultancy. The company builds AI and data systems to help organizations make data-driven business decisions.

Fred Shone
Data Scientist

Fred Shone

Fred is a data scientist in Arup’s City Modelling Lab, working on research and application of agent based models. His experience is with engineering, economics and data.

Alex Singleton
Professor of GIS

Alex Singleton

Alex is a Professor of GIS at the University of Liverpool, where he was appointed as a Lecturer in 2010. His research sits at the boundary between the social and computational sciences.

Paula Moraga
Lecturer in Statistics

Paula Moraga

Paula is a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath, UK, and the author of the book Geospatial Health Data: Modeling and Visualization with R-INLA and Shiny.

Dr Alistair Edwardes
Lead Data Scientist

Dr Alistair Edwardes

Dr. Alistair Edwardes is a Lead Data Scientist at the Office for National Statistics (ONS),and Deputy Head of Geography in Govt. Science and Engineering Profession.

Daniel Arribas-Bel
Researcher in Geographic Data Science

Daniel Arribas-Bel

Daniel is a senior lecturer in Geographic Data Science at the Department of Geography and Planning of the University of Liverpool, where he runs the MSc in Geographic Data Science.

Andrew Stringer
Technology Partner Business Data and Insight Management

Andrew Stringer

Andrew is a Tech Partner Business Data and Insight Manager at BT. His focus is on spatial analysis and tools, including big data and cloud solutions as well as more traditional geographic analysis.

Dr Tomas Holderness
CTO

Dr Tomas Holderness

Tomas has a wealth of experience building geospatial applications and working with risk-profile data. Prior to joining Addresscloud Tomas lead the Urban Risk Map project at MIT and holds a PhD in geomatics.

Miguel Álvarez García
Data Scientist

Miguel Álvarez García

Miguel is one of CARTO's data scientist with more than 9 years of experience in desiging, implementing and delivering optimization and machine learning solutions to enable data driven decision making in organizations.

Nombuyiselo Murage
Research and Development Lead

Nombuyiselo Murage

Nombuyiselo is a spatial data scientist, and she is the Research and Partnerships Lead at Women in GIS Kenya, which is a non-profit organization based in Nairobi.

Dr Chigozie Edson Utazi
Senior Research Fellow

Dr Chigozie Edson Utazi

Dr Chigozie has a PhD in spatiotemporal statistics from Lancaster University. He is interested in developing novel methodology in this area & applying them to solve health and development problems.

Ivelize Rocha Bernardo
Research Data Scientist

Ivelize Rocha Bernardo

Ivelize has a PhD in Data Integration and Semantic Recognition, she discovers and investigates state-of-the-art techniques for drawing insights from geospatial and transport data.

Martin Black
Data Scientist

Martin Black

Martin Black has a PhD in geography and more than 4 years of industry experience as a Data Scientist working with large scale geospatial datasets.

Levi John Wolf
Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography

Levi John Wolf

Levi is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Geography at the University of Bristol & a Fellow with the Alan Turing Institute. His research focuses on methods and models for analyzing city systems.

Luc Anselin
Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology & College Director, Center for Spatial Data Science Senior Fellow, NORC

Luc Anselin

Luc Anselin is a Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago in the Academic Research Centers. He is a leading world scholar among geographers, economists, & planners in the world on the subject of spatial econometrics.

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Workshops

Get hands on with spatial modeling workshops

Whether you're more interested in Python or R, we'll be holding interactive sessions on September 23rd so that you can learn from industry specialists.

Last year's workshops

  • Edzer

    'An Introduction to Spatial Data Science with R', with Edzer Pebesma

  • Andy

    'Using CARTOframes in your Spatial Data Science Workflows', with Andy Eschbacher

  • Brendan

    'Datashader for Spatial Data Science', by Brendan Collins

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