The group hosted a virtual hub for the distributed 2023 Spatial Data Science Symposium. For two days, students and faculty enjoyed live virtual presentations along with pizza and refreshments. Dr. Oshan organized a session as part of the symposium entitled Leveraging Geographic Context at Multiple Scales: The Salience of the Neighborhood in Statistical Learning & Causal Analysis and gave a brief talk "Generalized Additive Spatial Smoothing (GASS)".