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Computational geographer. Associate Professor at AMU, Poznan, Poland. Co-author of http://r.geocompx.org, http://py.geocompx.org, and http://tmap.geocompx.org books. #rstats #rspatial #geocompx https://jakubnowosad.com/

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Dec 8

Advancing geocomputation through open-source software! 🗺️

Consider supporting our continued development of free, powerful spatial analysis resources, such as Geocomputation with R.

Learn how to contribute at https://buff.ly/3OMFPUU

#rstats #rspatial #geopython #gecompx

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 52m

New blog post by Adam Steer: Identifying deformed sea ice using geomorphons ❄️🌊

Exploring sea ice as a landscape analysis problem with QGIS + GRASS GIS, using drone + lidar data.

👉 www.spatialised.net/identifying-...

#Geospatial #RStats #RSpatial #GISchat

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe.

Open Call for Nominations: https://europeanopensource.academy/open-call-nominations-european-open-source-awards-2026

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 3d

Starting out with geographic data in Python? 🌍🐍

Chapter 1 of Geocomputation with Python introduces vector & raster models + core tools (geopandas, shapely, rasterio).

👉 py.geocompx.org/01-spatial-d...

#GeoPython #Python #GISchat

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Dewey Dunnington @paleolimbot.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting...I think of GeoParquet and GeoArrow as tech that allows more people to avoid the cloud (i.e., use your laptop to do things that everyone thought they needed "the cloud" for five years ago). When your 14 GB .fgb files become 2GB GeoParquets, you can fit a whole lot more of them locally!

mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 5d

"Do things like "GeoParquet" and "GeoArrow" really matter to practitioners who aren't working for a handful of hyper-scaling organizations?". 🤔 First I've heard my employer called that 😆

sgillies.net/2025/09/17/l...

Leaving the GDAL Project Steering Commitee

I've been on the Project Steering Committee (PSC) of the GDAL project for a few years now. It's a hugely significant software project, one that I'm very fond of, and I like to think that I've had an i

sgillies.net

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Chris Kenny, PhD @chriskenny.bsky.social · 5d

redistio now uses @kylewalker.bsky.social's mapgl for interactive redistricting map editing!

redistio is an #rstats package that uses Shiny to draw redistricting maps locally.

Unlike other district editors, this provides access to our simulation algorithms, interactively!

Short demo:

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 4d

Preview the 2.5 billion buildings from @overturemaps.bsky.social in a single line of R code?

Why not?

Check out the pmtiles package: github.com/walkerke/pmt...

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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · 5d

Come work with me and the best team!! We work openly, together, with kindness. We care about onboarding, and have the best team culture I've ever experienced.

Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025.

Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
Please share!

connect – Openscapes

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 6d

Updates are underway in the {stats19} #rstats package, the quickest way to access large, high-quality collision datasets with geographical location and dozens of other variables at collision, vehicle, and casualty levels: new contributor (Blaise 🔥) + new data almost ready to launch 🚀

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 7d

New post by David O’Sullivan:

“Raster really is faster (and vaster), but vector just seems more corrector.”

Part 1A of a series revisiting ideas from Geographic Information Analysis: fractals, raster vs vector, and R code.

👉 dosull.github.io/posts/2025-0...

#Geospatial #RStats #RSpatial #GISchat

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 7d

I totally forgot: have you tried lwd.legend = tm_legend(reverse = TRUE)?

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 13d

Hi! 1. Yep -- you will need to be patient. The rest of the book will not be done shortly (there are some other priorities atm). 2. Your approach looks fine by me. If you have any suggestions on how to make it better -- please open a pull request in the tmap GitHub repo.

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 14d

🌍Exploring Sentinel-2 with the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE)?

Hugh Graham’s guide with vrtility in #rstats. Includes authentication & query of imagery and building cloud-free composites.

permian-global-research.github.io/vrtility/art...

#RSpatial #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #GIS

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Edzer Pebesma @edzer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Spatial Data Science across languages now has a website: https://spatial-data-science.github.io/ Thanks @martinfleis !

Spatial Data Science across Languages

spatial-data-science.github.io

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 21d

In preparation for the Data Science for Transport Planning (DSTP) course I'm teaching this week, I've updated the geocompx docker images to make them smaller, faster, and more flexible. Happy with the results: a portable multilingual environment for reproducible (transport) #DataScience

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Tom Hengl @tomhengl.bsky.social · 22d

Had a privilege and pleasure to teach terra pkg (created by @roberthijmans.bsky.social et al.) and spatial sampling with R together with Alexandre Wadoux at the #EOSummerSchool2025 at WICC. You can follow the terra tutorial from here: differ.blog/p/processing...
📹: youtu.be/q9sQkg7BeAc?...

Processing large rasters using terra package for R: combining tiling and time-series modeling

differ.blog

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 23d

This week (Sep 15–19) I’m attending the #ECMLPKDD2025 conf in Porto!

Happy to chat about the intersection of machine learning and spatial data -- reach out if you’d like to meet. 🌍

#ECMLPKDD2025 #MachineLearning #Geospatial

Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 24d

🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap

A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package.
Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code.

Read online: tmap.geocompx.org

#rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 27d

📢 Materials from the OpenGeoHub Summer School 2025 (“Data Science for Earth Observation”) by Krzysztof Dyba are now online.

Discuss how to access, process, and analyze satellite data with #RStats.

👉 github.com/kadyb/OGH2025

#RSpatial #RemoteSensing #GISchat

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Geocomputation with Python #opensource book project just got an upgrade, with Python 3.12 now the default in the devcontainer.

You can launch a full dev environment directly from your browser with GitHub Codespaces. Give it a try here: github.com/codespaces/n...

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Sep 7

🌍 Call for Papers! Submit to the Progress in Physical Geography special issue:
Coding Earth: Open Source Solutions in Physical Geography

📅 Deadline: 18 Dec 2025
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/home/ppg

#OpenSource #OpenScience #GISchat #RSpatial #GeoPython

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Sep 1

We’ve updated the geocompx README.

Find guides, books, and tools for geocomputation in R, Python, and Julia — plus ways to get involved.

Take a look: github.com/geocompx

#Geocomputation #RStats #Python #OpenSource #geocompx

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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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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Aug 26

Thank you -- I am adding it now.

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Grant McKenzie @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Spatial Data Science Symposium #SDSS2025 is back. Check out the Call for Sessions and Call for Papers: sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

Spatial Data Science Symposium 2025

December 4-5 | Distributed & Online. The symposium aims to bring together researchers from both academia and industry to discuss experiences, insights, methodologies, and applications, taking spatial...

sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · Aug 20

I've added a few new features to {grateful}, the package that facilitates citation of #rstats packages, and I'd love feedback before submitting to CRAN 🧵

grateful: Facilitate citation of R packages

The goal of grateful is to make it very easy to cite R and the R packages used in any analyses, so that package authors receive their deserved credit. By calling a single function, grateful will scan the project for R packages used and generate a BibTeX file containing all citations for those packages.

grateful can then generate a new document with citations in the desired output format (Word, PDF, LaTeX, HTML, Markdown). These references can be formatted for a specific journal, so that we can just paste them directly into our manuscript or report.

Alternatively, we can use grateful directly within an Rmarkdown or Quarto document. In this case, a paragraph containing in-text citations of all used R packages will (optionally) be inserted into the Rmarkdown/Quarto document, and these packages will be included in the reference list when rendering.

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