James earned his PhD in Geography in 2019 from Florida State University, where he also holds a MS GISci. Prior to joining Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2021, he has spent two years as a post doc with Penn State developing methods for improving the locational accuracy of individual persons and households through secure census microdata. His research lies at the intersection of GIS, spatial data science, and operations research, with strong foci in network-constrained optimal facility location modeling and the modeling consequences of aggregating population data. He is passionate about open & reproducible science, being a core member of PySAL (Python Spatial Analysis Library) and a Topic Editor for JOSS (Journal of Open Source Software). Born and raised in rural north central Florida, James takes any chance he can to get back to the swamp with his wife and dog for hiking or simply relaxing and enjoying nature.
Core developer & Steering Council Member
PySAL [https://pysal.org/team/]
Research Affiliate
Center for Open Geographical Science at San Diego State University (USA) [https://cogs.sdsu.edu/people/]
Research Affiliate
Research Team on Urban Structure at Univerzita Karlova (Czech Republic) [https://uscuni.org/team/]
Rey, S.J., Anselin, L., Amaral, P., Arribas-Bel, D., Cortes, R.X., Gaboardi, J.D., Knaap, E., Kang,W., Li, Z., Lumnitz, S., Oshan, T.M. Shao, H., andWolf, L.J. The PySAL Ecosystem: Philosophy and Implementation. Geographical Analysis. (54) 467-487. DOI: 10.1111/gean.12276
Gaboardi, J.D., Rey, S.J., and Lumnitz, S. spaghetti: spatial network analysis in PySAL. Journal of Open Source Software. 6(62) 2826. DOI: 10.21105/joss.02826
Gaboardi, J.D., Folch, D.C., and Horner, M.W. Connecting Points to Spatial Networks: Effects on Discrete Optimization Models. Geographical Analysis. (52) 299–322. DOI: 10.1111/gean.12211
Lumnitz, S., Arribas-Bel, D., Cortes, R.X., Gaboardi, J.D., Greiss, V., Kang,W., Oshan, T.M.,Wolf, L.J., and Rey, S.J. splot - visual analytics for spatial statistics. Journal of Open Source Software. 5(47) 1882. DOI: 10.21105/joss.01882
Gaboardi, J.D. Validating Abstract Representations of Spatial Population Data while considering Disclosure Avoidance. Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3677162
