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] In 1991-92 he was the director of the Business School (MBA studies) of the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). 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.

External links

• Roger Bivand publications indexed by Google Scholar