Presentations and workshops

Talks and workshops by Jakub Nowosad on spatial data science, geocomputation, R, and methods for analyzing geographic data.

Presentations archive

2026

Where can your spatial model be trusted? Reliable validation of spatial machine learning, 2026-08-19, Earth Observation Summer School 2026, Istanbul
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A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R, 2026-07-08, UseR! 2026, Warsaw
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Rethinking Validation for Spatial Machine Learning, 2026-06-22, Machine Learning for Earth Observation 2026, Exeter, UK
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Assessing residual spatial autocorrelation in machine learning models, 2026-05-06, EGU 2026, Vienna
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2025

Elephant(s) in the room: Graph neural networks, embeddings, and foundation models in spatial data science, 2025-12-10, AG Forum 2025, Münster
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R for geospatial predictive mapping: practical workflows for reliable spatial predictions, 2025-11-27, Rome R Users Group, Rome
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Investigating Moran’s I Properties for Spatial Machine Learning, 2025-06-11, AGILE GI 2025, Dresden
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Tips from an MSCA-PF applicant, 2025-05-13, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship info session, KoWi
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An Inventory of Spatial Machine Learning Packages in R, 2025-03-27, FOSSGIS 2025, Münster
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Exploring geospatial visualization in R: from basics to the latest tools, 2025-02-26, R User Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
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2024

R’s Geospatial Kaleidoscope: Exploring Perspectives, Strengths, and Challenges, 2024-11-07, III Congreso & XIV Jornadas de Usuarios de R, Sevilla
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Learning resources and teaching methods, 2024-09-10, Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2024, Prague
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Spontaneous growth of the geocompx FOSS4G community, 2024-07-05, FOSS4G Europe 2024, Tartu
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Comparing spatial patterns in raster data using R, 2024-07-04, FOSS4G Europe 2024, Tartu
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Geoinformatics: Science, software, education (in Polish), 2024-02-23, Space Research Day at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
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2023

Pattern-based spatial analysis: current state and future challenges, 2023-09-28, IIASA, Laxenburg
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Exploring spatial autocorrelation and variable importance in machine learning models using patternograms, 2023-09-05, European Conference of Ecological Modelling 2023, Leipzig
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Sharing your geospatial knowledge in the open, 2023-09-01, OpenGeoHub Summer School 2023, Poznan
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Open science in geographical research: an overview of concepts and perspectives (in Polish), 2023-06-02, Kongres Geografii Polskiej 2023, Poznan
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2022

Pattern-based spatial analysis: current state and future challenges (in Polish), 2022-12-01, Geoinformacja: Nauka - Praktyka - Edukacja, Poznan
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A method for universal superpixels-based regionalization, 2022-08-26, FOSS4G 2022, Firenze
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Open science: open source, open data, open access… (in Polish), 2022-03-22, seminar of the Department of Geoinformation AMU, Poznan
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2021

Public data, open-source software, and spatial questions (in Polish), 2021-11-17, GIS Day, Poznan
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Generalizing the Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC) superpixels, 2021-09-28, GIScience 2021
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Spatial segmentation in R using the supercells package, 2021-09-02, OpenGeoHub Summer School
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GIS and mapping ecosystem of R, 2021-06-29, Ecole thématique SIGR2021, Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron
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Describing multi-layer spatial patterns using an integrated co-occurrence matrix (INCOMA), 2021-04-16, GISRUK 2021
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Pattern-based spatial analysis: an approach for discovering, describing and studying geographical patterns, 2021-02-03, RGS-IBG GIScience Webinar Series
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Describing composition and configuration of patterns in categorical rasters, 2021-01-15, Rasters Revealed 2021
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2020

Current state and changes in the composition and configuration of landscapes worldwide, 2020-05-13, IALE-North America 2020 Annual Meeting
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Recent changes in R spatial and how to be ready for them, 2020-04-23, Why R? Webinar
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2019

The Landscape of Spatial Data Analysis in R, 2019-09-28, Why R? 2019, Warszawa
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How to win friends and write an open-source book, 2019-07-12, useR! 2019, July 9-12, 2019, Toulouse, France
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From empirical to theoretical descriptors of landscapes complexity, 2019-07-04, the 10th IALE World Congress, July 1-5, 2019, Milan, Italy
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Integration between QGIS and R (in Polish), 2019-06-26, The 2th QGIS User Meeting in Poland, Poznan
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The R programming language as an open-source GIS (in Polish), 2019-03-22, The 7th BioGIS Forum, Poznan
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Reproducible spatial data analysis: An example of transportation analysis for Bristol, 2019-01-29, Collegium Da Vinci, Poznan
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2018

Geocomputation with R: open-source spatial data analysis (in Polish), 2018-11-14, GIS Day, Poznan
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Global changes in landscapes between 1992 and 2015, 2018-07-25, Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC, Biddeford, ME
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Describing Landscapes by Statistics of Local Pattern Features: Application to Landscape Regionalization, Change, and Search, 2018-04-09, The US-IALE 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
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2015

My first steps in R (in Polish), 2015-11-07, Poznan
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Machine learning with the caret R package (in Polish), 2015-05-22, pazuR, Poznan
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2014

The basic tools in the geographeR work (in Polish), 2014-01-30, pazuR, Poznan
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Workshops archive

2026

Spatial visualization with tmap, 2026-08-20, Earth Observation Summer School 2026, Istanbul
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Building reproducible spatial workflows in R, 2026-08-17, Earth Observation Summer School 2026, Istanbul
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Geocomputation with R, 2026-07-06, UseR! 2026, Warsaw
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Where your models can be trusted: evaluating spatial machine learning reliably, 2026-06-23, Machine Learning for Earth Observation 2026, Exeter, UK
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2024

Machine learning approaches for working with spatial data, 2024-11-08, III Congreso & XIV Jornadas de Usuarios de R, Sevilla
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Describing and comparing spatial patterns, 2024-09-05, EON Summer School 2024, Oderbruck
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Introduction to R for the Geosciences, 2024-04-10, EGU24, Vienna
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2022

Geocomputation with R’s guide to reproducible spatial data analysis, 2022-08-30, OpenGeoHub Summer School 2022, Siegburg
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Getting started with R and R-spatial, 2022-08-22, FOSS4G 2022, Firenze
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2021

Image processing and raster analysis with R, 2021-07-02, Ecole thématique SIGR2021, Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron
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GIS and mapping ecosystem of R: a workshop, 2021-06-30, Ecole thématique SIGR2021, Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron
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2020

First steps in spatial data handling and visualization, 2020-07-27, useR! 2020
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Introduction to landscape ecology with R, 2020-05-14, IALE-North America 2020 Annual Meeting
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2019

Basics of Spatial Data Analysis, 2019-09-27, Why R? 2019, Warszawa
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Spatial Data Analysis in R, 2019-03-22, The 7th BioGIS Forum, Poznan
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2018

GeoPAT 2: analysis of spatial and temporal patterns, 2018-08-22, GEOSTAT Summer School, Prague, Czech Republic
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2017

GIS with R: how to start?, 2017-11-01, the GIS Learning Community, Cincinnati
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Intro to spatial analysis, 2017-04-26, Cincinnati
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Intro to data visualization, 2017-04-26, Cincinnati
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Intro to R, 2017-04-24, Cincinnati
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Intro to data processing, 2017-04-24, Cincinnati
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2015

R - how to create an interactive map with a few line of code (in Polish), 2015-06-01, IV GIS in science conference, Poznan
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2014

Spatial data analysis with R (in Polish), 2014-10-15, The Polish Academic R User Meeting 2014, Poznan
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