https://spatialscience.org/news/News from Spatial Science and Urban Systems, UC Irvine: publications, software releases, talks, and workshops.enhttps://spatialscience.org/projects/kindex/2026-11-11-pysal-workshop-and-new-segregation-research-at-narsc-philadelphiaWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000Knaap and Sergio Rey teach Spatial Data Analysis and Econometrics with PySAL on the first day of the North American Regional Science Council’s annual meeting, November 11–14, and Knaap presents Separated, Polarized, and Factioned?https://github.com/knaaptime/sparsax/releases/tag/v0.11.02026-09-30-sparsax-0.11.0Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:26:02 +0000Sparse direct solvers for JAX, backed by SuiteSparse: factorizations, solves, and log-determinants that run natively inside compiled code.https://github.com/knaaptime/pgjax/releases/tag/v0.2.02026-09-30-pgjax-0.2.0Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:18:30 +0000Pólya-Gamma sampling on device for JAX, inside compiled, scanned, and parallel programs.https://spatialscience.org/news/2026-09-28-knaap-joins-the-editorial-board-of-regional-science-policy-practiceMon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://spatialscience.org/projects/lmbayes/2026-09-18-a-bayesian-lagrange-multiplier-framework-for-spatial-cross-section-panel-and-flow-modelsFri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Elijah Knaap. Forthcoming in Spatial Economic Analysis.https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.111262026-09-16-segregation-segregation-analysis-inference-and-decomposition-in-pythonWed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Renan X. Cortes, Elijah Knaap, Sergio J. Rey. Journal of Open Source Software.https://github.com/knaaptime/bayesplain/releases/tag/v0.1.02026-09-16-bayesplain-0.1.0Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:39:44 +0000The Bayesian version of the tests an introductory statistics course teaches, printed beside the conventional test.https://github.com/pysal/segregation/releases/tag/v2.6.02026-09-13-segregation-2.6.0Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:45:26 +0000Segregation measurement: single-group, multigroup, and local indices, spatial and aspatial, with inference and decomposition.https://github.com/oturns/pandarm/releases/tag/v0.0.62026-06-10-pandarm-0.0.6Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:41:15 +0000The pandas routing machine: travel network analysis on contraction hierarchies, with a pandas interface.https://github.com/pysal/tobler/releases/tag/v0.14.02026-04-10-tobler-0.14.0Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:08:33 +0000Areal interpolation, dasymetric mapping, change of support, and small area estimation.https://spatialscience.org/projects/pose/2026-03-17-panel-at-the-aag-annual-meeting-open-source-spatial-data-science-government-industryTue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000Co-organized and co-chaired by Knaap and Taylor Oshan at the American Association of Geographers’ annual meeting in San Francisco, March 17–21, as part of the NSF POSE project.https://events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/313748-spatial-data-science-summit2026-03-15-spatial-data-science-summit-at-the-berkeley-institute-for-data-scienceSun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000Knaap co-organized the summit’s two days of working sessions, March 15–16, as a co-PI of the NSF POSE project.https://github.com/oturns/geosnap/releases/tag/v0.17.02026-03-09-geosnap-0.17.0Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:45:45 +0000The Geospatial Neighborhood Analysis Package: exploring, modeling, and visualizing the social context and spatial extent of neighborhoods and regions over time.https://github.com/knaaptime/workshop-pysal-wrsa262026-02-11-pysal-workshop-and-zoning-research-at-wrsa-santa-feWed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000Knaap and Rey taught a full-day PySAL workshop at the Western Regional Science Association’s 65th annual meeting, February 11–14, and Knaap presented Zoning and Segregation in Principal Cities and Suburbs.https://github.com/knaaptime/workshop-pysal-narsc252025-11-01-pysal-workshop-and-zoning-research-at-narsc-denverSat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000Knaap taught Spatial Data Analysis and Econometrics with PySAL and presented Zoning and Segregation: The Roles of Spatial Scale and Metropolitan Fragmentation.