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@mackaszechno.bsky.social

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#rstats geospatial data analyst. GIS expert, of a sort. Sci-fi fan and would be writer. Black cat owner. Occasionally apocalyptical. Can't DM. WORDS ARE QUICK AND WORDS ARE VAIN, THE SINGLE SURE AND FINAL ANSWER MUST BE PAIN. -Dan Simmons, Olympos

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · Feb 28

Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 11, 2025 ~ Everything is fine.

"The invisible gas can be seen in streams of bubbles originating on the seafloor of Antarctica's Ross Sea ... describing the mechanism as 'seemingly widespread' throughout the region... "

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Researchers find methane leaking out of cracks in Antarctic seabed

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, researchers have found.

abcnews.go.com

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 18h

Fun fact: despite the enormous land mass, the population-weighted density of Canada — basically the density experienced by the average person — is the same as Denmark and close to the Netherlands.

Canada and Denmark are 3,000 people per km², while the Netherlands is 3,400/km².

Mapping Population Density Across the Globe

Explore the detailed geography of population across the globe with interactive mapping and statistics. Identify global megacity regions and the growth and diversity of urban forms. Data is from the Gl...

luminocity3d.org

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 1d

On the blog: how to map hundreds of thousands of US Census blocks performantly with R and PMTiles.

This is the first in a three-post series on production mapping workflows for big spatial datasets with PMTiles.

Read the post: walker-data.com/post...

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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 1d

🗺️ Upcoming Workshop: “Intro to Spatial Data in R”

🗓️ Thursday, October 23, 2025
🕤 9:30–11:30 AM CDT
💻 Virtual; Register here: go.illinois.edu/GCCP-OCT23

This workshop is presented as part of the JCOIN Geospatial Consortium & Community of Practice (GCCP).
👉 gccp.healthyregions.org

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 5h

idk
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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 26d

So, github can't handle my 50MB geopackage. So, creating a repo for uploading to posit connect cloud is a no go.

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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 17h

niche #rstats tweet: does anyone have a nice snippet of code they would share to download, import, and reshape GLORYS12 ocean data?

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Yutani @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks to @paleolimbot.bsky.social's great work, the sedonadb R package is now also available to Windows via R-universe 🎉 I'm excited particularly because I believe sedonadb is the easiest tool for R users to access GeoParquet data. #rstats

apache.r-universe.dev/sedonadb

sedonadb: Bindings for Apache SedonaDB

apache.r-universe.dev

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Forget #GoogleMaps. OpenStreetMaps forever 🗺️ 💪 @cosmogenetic.bsky.social · 1d

Want a better #map for everyone? Contribute to #OpenStreetMap!
Add shops, companies, or paths with with easy apps like mapcomplete.org, Go Map!! or Every Door:
🍏 apps.apple.com/nl/app/every...
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Quick, fun, and for everyone.🚶‍♀️📍
#MapForAll #OSM #shopping #sales

‎Every Door

‎This editor does not make you think. Just go to a mall, and start Every Door. You'll see mapped shops around you: tap on the checkmark for any that are still there, and add shops that are not on the ...

apps.apple.com

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Guess I'll stay with RStudio a while longer then.

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ryan scharf @ryanscharf.bsky.social · 1d

is shinyapps.io deprecated to make way for Connect Cloud? I'm used to publishing to shinyapps from RStudio but just realized that it's not available in #positron right now.

#rstats
#databs

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Collin Berke @collinberke.bsky.social · 1d

I'm often amazed at how much typing I've saved myself by using `dput(names())` when working with #RStats.

I wrote about this back in 2024, and I was reminded about it's utility again today: www.collinberke.com/til/posts/20...

Use base::dput() to easily create and save objects – Collin K. Berke, Ph.D.

Need to create and store an object quickly, use this trick

www.collinberke.com

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

The decade...?

𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Does this script cure insomnia?

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

No, be a weasel. Better suited to rabbit holes 😜

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bpiros.bsky.social @bpiros.bsky.social · 1d

I recreated my #TidyTuesday wk36 plot in #Tableau.
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Doherty

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Sussex here. Yep, I can confirm twitten. Even used as proper road names in 9 locations in West Sussex. Here's one in Crawley...

$bob <- st_read(geodata, layer = "TSS Checklist", query = "SELECT * FROM \"TSS Checklist\" WHERE Street LIKE '%TWITTEN%'") bob <- bob |> select(USRN, Street) mapview(bob)$ Twitten used as road name

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

He's a what..? I can't read it.

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Can I assume github co-pilot isn't the steaming dog turd that vanilla co-pilot is?

𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Bloody typical...

𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

In the world of JavaScript, it is always so 😕

Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 2d

Unsurprisingly it was a CORS error... everything is _always_ a CORS error. It works now!

𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, Ken. You took it too far 😂

𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Not a problem. The personal glory would be bad if it wasn't for the humility with which individuals readily answer follow up questions. The willingness to help each other is what makes this space great.

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Grumpy Old Health Stats Dude @healthstatsdude.bsky.social · 1d

www.idwsds.org #rstats folks check this out if you haven’t already seen it!

International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Like in 10^1000 years, eh? Probably time for another coffee.

Still, it's amazing how much time passed in the universe before anything could happen and how long after everything that could happen has happened before the universe is finally snuffed out. Makes you wonder if time is just an abstract.