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Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · 2h

Well deserved! Congrats.

Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · 1d

I’m testing out this method to get spatial data from MSSQL into R (then convert to an sf object) but it seems to work for some tables but not others hydroecology.net//reading-spa...

I need a reprex but I’m also wondering if there are other ways to do this that don’t use st_read. #rstats #rspatial

Reading spatial data from SQL Server with DBI and wk (not sf)

Michael Koohafkan's research blog

hydroecology.net

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 1d

🎉 The latest version of {stats19} is here!

This #rstats package for road collision data now includes:

✨ 2024 data downloads (finally)
👥 A new package author (Blaise Kelly)
📃 Docs reproducing DfT data

Instantly analyse 9 million+ collision records 🚀

Details: docs.ropensci.org/stats19/news...

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Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · 3d

Any variations that drop columns that have the same value in the first row and corresponding row from the comparison data frame?

Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · 3d

Not at all. This is exactly the direction I’d been thinking of with a plan to iterate over each list/row and only keep the differences in the first list vs. the comparison list. I’ll try this out with some more of my complex input data and see if it works!

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Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · 3d

Before I code something from scratch, does anyone have a #rstats function like setdiff but it works with named lists and/or data frame rows? Optionally dropping duplicate values and keeping the differences from the first list?

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine if a water pipe broke and the water department had to ask city council whether to fix it and then spend 12 months asking everyone on the street their opinion of how to fix it before they could start work.

That's how cities manage curbs.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4d

This is the process chart for the City of Bellevue's potential plan to add parking meters.

Fourteen steps completed over the course of one year

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Tuesday 10/7 7pm PT
@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social in conversation w/ Daphne Muse
celebrating POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
@princetonupress.bsky.social

In-person, or register for Zoom here: citylights.com/events/joshu...

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Kayleigh Giorgio @kayleighathena.bsky.social · 8d

THIS SATURDAY IN BALTIMORE!!!
The second annual Graphic Novel Festival is happening from 9-5 in Highlandtown at @dreamersbmore.bsky.social!

www.graphicnovelfestival.com

An illustrated flyer for Graphic Novel Festival reads: “Graphic Novel Festival - Save the date! Saturday October 4, 1025 at Dreamers and Make-Believers Bookstore!

An illustrated flyer for Graphic Novel Festival lists the program schedule.
9am: The Kids’ Graphic Novel Game Show
10am: Beginner Pen & Ink (workshop)
11am: Creators of a Graphic Novel (panel)
12pm: Cosplay Runway
1pm: business of a Graphic Novel
2pm: Writing for Artists
3pm: the Graphic Novel Game Show
4pm: The Madness of Junji Ito

An illustrated flyer for Graphic Novel Festival lists the signing schedule.
10am: Jordan Clark, Jonathan Roth
11am: Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Jonathan Roth
12pm: Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Derek Kirk Jim
1pm: Sam Freeman, Lindoyes
2pm: Barbara Perez Marquez, Hannah Templar
3pm: Sarah Meyer, Trish Forstner
4pm: Sarah Meyer, Trish Forstner

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · 14d

Ah, growing kids is a whole other wrinkle! I’m on year 11 of box bike ownership now with kid 3. As they get bigger and bigger, I ride slower and slower. Good to ride whatever works best for you, of course.

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Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · 14d

FWIW - it probably took me 3 or 4 months of regular riding at least to feel fully comfortable on my Bullitt. The differences in steering and the weight both take some getting used to! They are wonderful bikes.

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 16d

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto

Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website

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Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · 26d

Hugh Graham shared this helpful example of one convention for organizing targets into separate scripts on Mastodon fosstodon.org/@hughagraham... #rstats #targets

Hugh Graham (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images @[email protected] So unfortunately it's not online. This is just something I'm trying out for the first time, basically, where there are obvious chunks of targets that go toget...

fosstodon.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 9

Are you doing public history work in NYC? If yes and you would like to be included in a potential gathering tentatively happening in April 2026 here in the city, please reach out to [email protected].

This will be focused on grassroots public history efforts happening and/or planned here in NYC.

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Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · Sep 3

At @okfn.bsky.social we are looking for a short-term R Developer. The work is exciting and important, advancing a humanitarian mission! Apply or share with others!

Senior R Developer – Jobs & Opportunities – Open Knowledge Foundation

okfn.org

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · Sep 9

People keep telling me they can't afford to attend #PositConf2025 next week, so I need to make a public service announcement: attending virtually is very affordable (or free!) & is amazing! Get registered & hangout with me on the Discord server!! #databs #rstats #python

Screenshot from https://posit.co/conf-pricing-2025/ showing the posit conf virtual ticket pricing. $99 for standard virtual ticket, $49 for Government and Non-profit employees, and Free for students, academics, and needs-based attendees. There are hand-drawn doodles by Libby that highlight each option and one note says "Plus, Virtual Day!"

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Alex Holt @skatingtomato.bsky.social · Sep 6

Safeway’s got a pretty similar deal, FTR: www.safeway.com/pharmacy/vac... & Wegmans is now taking appointments & walk-ins in MA, NY, NJ, PA, & MD (No idea on their one DC location, they’re giving them @ their VA & NC stores but only w/ a doctor’s prescription) www.wegmans.com/pharmacy

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Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hope to see some #Baltimore neighbors in the morning at the @bikemore.net Bike Breakfast! secure.everyaction.com/eTH-PaXiNEmE...

Bike Breakfast

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Gus @gusbecker.bsky.social · Aug 8

Zines are a great tool for science communication. Earlier this year, I put one together with @kiricarini.com of @developmentseed.org.

The zine provides a visually interesting jumping off point for folks learning cloud-native geospatial data!

"Optimizing Geospatial Data for the Cloud"
"A zine exploring common formats"
"Development Seed"
"Gus Becker Kiri Carini"
A floating robot with one hand on a keyboard to a computer that has a glove on the screen. The other hand is giving a thumbs up.

A raccoon character asking about smoke data, and a floating robot describes how vector format may be more efficient than raster in some cases.

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Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡

Screenshot from Star Trek DS9. Leeta, Rom, and the rest of the workers at Quark's Bar are all huddled together. Caption: "(all chanting): Union! Union!"

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Matti has a Boo-ty 👻 @mrbtx.bsky.social · Aug 30

oh no i'm reading about the b&o's weird freight operations in fells point @sandypsj.bsky.social @interurbanera.bsky.social @sevensixfive.bsky.social

page from RAILMODEL JOURNAL November 1992 showing the streets of Fells Point, Baltimore in the late 60s/70s with street trackage, trucks, and the B&O's weird Caterpillar truck tractor

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Aug 6

Check out "Scaling the r-spatial ecosystem" by Dewey Dunnington 🌍📦
An exploration of how R’s spatial tools can be used for big(ger) data.

Video: youtu.be/tjNEoIYr_ag?...
Slides: dewey.dunnington.ca/slides/rspat...

#RStats #rspatial #GIS #SpatialData

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Aug 27

📦 New R package: sfhotspot by Matt Ashby

Identify & analyze spatial clusters of points (places/events) entirely with sf objects.
Includes tools for counts, change over time, kernel density, Getis–Ord Gi*, etc.

🔗 GitHub: github.com/mpjashby/sfh...

#RStats #GISchat #Geocomputation #RSpatial

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