Computers, Cities & Data
Prof. in Geographic Data Science at the University of Liverpool
đź“„ https://darribas.org
đź“– https://geographicdata.science
🛰️ https://imago.ac.uk
Dani Arribas-Bel
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"Most of the data cities need will be alien." That was my pitch at the launch of the Planetary Urban Sciences Lab (+Lab) in Bristol, where we identified unsolved urban challenges. I wrote a bit more about it at: me.darribas.org/2026/06/10/a...
Happy release day to those who celebrate!!! Today, you can access our derived product of Google embeddings for small areas in the UK. Embeddings are changing how we work with satellite data. We hope this product will make even easier to get started to look at places.
imago.ac.uk/news/imago-r...
🎧 Our new #GLaDpodcast episode—Baby Talk—is all about, yeah, babies. Plus the academic life course, careers and the messy business of advice and decisionmaking. What's not to love?!
With @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @pietrostefani.bsky.social
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Happy release day (+1) to those who celebrate! Third week in a row shipping imagery-based data products. One is a fluke, two is a pattern, three is real team effort. Imago releases CLiVE Air Temperature and Precipitation:
imago.ac.uk/news/imago-r...
Last week we released Google embeddings for UK's small areas. While preparing workshop materials, I ran into this nice little example of what they’re capable of. Read on to find out why Battersea Power Station is such an interesting example! me.darribas.org/2026/05/05/w...
Happy data release day to those who celebrate!!! We’ve been working really hard (how hard can it be to count clouds? a lot, it turns out…) to bring you all your cloudy needs neatly packaged. If you play with SPF, we’d love to hear from you!
imago.ac.uk/news/imago-r...
Just back from a fully packed week in the Bay Area, I jotted down a few notes to commit the highlights to memory (and battle the post-academic high blues!): me.darribas.org/2026/03/23/n...
Talking about babies (and _everything_ around them) was trickier on tape than on paper, but I think it was worth the effort, audience be the judge!
New #GLaDpodcast episode: #embeddings for the rest of us! Join @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and yours truly for a (hopefully) “lay enough” conversation about one of the most interesting ideas in geo-data that the last few years have produced.
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New episode of the one and only #GLaDpodcast. For this one, @rsfrankl.bsky.social , @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and yours truly dust off our oracles to speculate what 2026 (whatever is left of it anyway) has in store for Geography, Life, Geography Life, and Data!
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Today, we’re talking about embeddings. Unless you’ve been living… well, I don’t know where, you might have heard of the term generative AI. At the core of this technology is an obscure idea, word embe...
Happy new year!!! We know, we know, we’ve been in 2026 for a while already (already too long?). But this is the first episode we recorded this year, the first one with Levi as a dad (yay!), and one wh...
🎧 Our new #GLaDpodcast episode—Baby Talk—is all about, yeah, babies. Plus the academic life course, careers and the messy business of advice and decisionmaking. What's not to love?!
With @darribas.bsky.social @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & @pietrostefani.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/5TDJ...
