Roger Bivand

Roger Simon Bivand (born 5 April 1951) is a British geographer, economist and professor at the Norwegian School of Economics. He specialises in open source software for spatial analysis,[1] and played a major role in developing functions for spatial data in the R statistical programming language, including the R packages sp, rgdal, maptools and rgrass7.[2][3] His book Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R (2008), coauthored with Edzer Pebesma and Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, is considered "the authoritative resource on R's spatial capabilities".[4]

Education and career

Bivand was born in Bristol on 5 April 1951.[5] He studied geography at the University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1975,[1] with a thesis on the economic geography of Sogn og Fjordane in Norway.[6] He went on to receive a habilitation from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1982.[1]

Bivand joined the Norwegian School of Economics in 1988 and was appointed a professor in 1996.[1] He has been an editor of several academic journals, including the Journal of Statistical Software, The R Journal, the Journal of Geographical Systems, Geographical Analysis and the Norwegian Journal of Geography.[1] In 2018 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the OpenGeoHub Foundation.[7]

Selected publications
  • Bivand, Roger; Pebesma, Edzer; Gómez-Rubio, Virgilio (2013). Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-7618-4.[4][8]

References
  1. "Roger Bivand". Norwegian School of Economics. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  2. Lovelace, Robin; Nowosad, Jakub; Muenchow, Jannes (2019-03-22). Geocomputation with R. CRC Press. pp. 5–7. ISBN 978-1-351-39689-9.
  3. "Roger Bivand". OpenGeoHub Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  4. Lovelace, Robin (1 March 2015). "Book Review: Advanced Spatial Data Analysis with R, R. Bivand, E. Pebesma and V. Gomez-Rubio, Second Edition, Springer, Softcover and eBook, 405 pages, 2013". Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 8 (1): 85–87. doi:10.1007/s12061-014-9118-y. ISSN 1874-4621. S2CID 255506437.
  5. Brunstad, Rolf; Vatne, Eirik (2011-04-05). "Roger S. Bivand 60 år". Paraplyen (in Norwegian). Norwegian School of Economics. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  6. Bivand, Roger (1990). The economic geography of regional differentiation: studies in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway (PhD). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  7. "Life Achievement Award for prof. dr. Roger Bivand". OpenGeoHub Foundation. 2018-08-24. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  8. Hoef, Jay M. Ver (2009). "Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. by BIVAND, R. S., PEBESMA, E. J., and GOMEZ-RUBIO, V." Biometrics. 65 (2): 660–661. doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01247_1.x. ISSN 1541-0420.
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