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-… 🧵1/n

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!

7/ 🔁 This work builds on @ESRC DEBIAS project on representativeness in digital trace data: de-bias.github.io/debias/ #mobilitydata #DTM

6/ 🌍 @UNmigration feature summarising key insights for displacement monitoring: dtm.iom.int/updates/new-re…

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…

🚨New paper in @ReadDemography w @CCabreraPhD @ruthneville20 @andrea_nasuto @Fcorowe 🇲🇽🦠Beyond the Immediate Impacts of COVID-19 on Internal Population Movements in Mexico: Facebook Data Reveal Urban Decay and Slow Recovery 🔓doi.org/10.1215/007033…

In “Impacts of COVID-19 on Internal Population Movements,” @MiguelGLeonardo, @Fcorowe et al. used Facebook user mobility data to illustrate that contrary to the Global North, “Mexico did not see an urban exodus during the pandemic." @geodatascience ow.ly/J2a350WBxMV

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/

📢 Announcing the first-ever @geodatascience Summer School! Boost your skills in Data Science, Geography, ML/AI with our dream team: @EPietrostefani, @CCabreraPhD, @darribas, @gabrifilo, Mark, Zi, Olga & Ron 🗓️Early Bird: 30/06 Please help sharing🙏 🔗 lnkd.in/eW976945

🚨 New PhD Opportunity! Join our exciting project with @Ofsted at the @geodatascience on early childhood education & labour force participation. Work with novel geospatial data & methods with real-world impact. 🗓️ Deadline: 1 June 2025 📥 Apply: lnkd.in/egTWyUT8

🚨 Call for papers! 🚨 @ruthneville20, @CCabreraPhD & I are hosting a #BSPS2025 strand: Innovative Data & Methods for Pop. Data Science 🤖 We welcome work on digital trace data & AI, inc. bias, representation & ethics challenges. 📅 Deadline: 9 May 2025 lse.ac.uk/international-…

Read more on DEBIAS here: de-bias.github.io/debias/ and if interested, please do reach out!

V happy to see our project DEBIAS with @CCabreraPhD featured by @UKRI_News @SmartDataRes. Mobile phone data have transformed how we understand cities & populations. But they are biased. DEBIAS aims to identify and correct biases in mobility patterns derived from these data ...