Francisco Rowe ✌️

In the summer, I delivered a introductory course to geographic data science in #rspatial drawing on @darribas's excellent Python material.

The course is open (👌🏽cost ) ➡️ fcorowe.github.io/intro-gds/
The code & data are here: github.com/fcorowe/intro-…

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Applications are open for the DEBIAS Workshop and Symposium (7–8 July 2026, @LivUni), focused on standards for bias-adjusted digital mobility data across research, official statistics and policy.

Apply by 15 April. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/9eWNt3GcK0

New preprint out!

New paper!

📍 Internal displacement is hard to measure in the first days of a crisis. Our new study evaluates whether privacy-preserving GPS mobility data can support short-term displacement estimation.
Paper: doi.org/10.1057/s41599…

Back from a great trip to OZ🇦🇺. Presented at the #IPC2025, shared our DEBIAS work on human mobility📱and revisited my PhD home at UQ. Delivered seminars at UQ and Griffith Unis. Fantastic chats on mobility, data science & climate chng. More on DEBIAS 👉 de-bias.github.io/debias/