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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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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 14h

Well, @maprva.org has some late 1990s Oregon Hill RVA pics up... how much of a nudge will it take to get @dfrsh757.bsky.social to jump on that?

georeference.maprva.org/browse/the-v...

Mary Brett Oregon Hill Photograph Collection - The Valentine

georeference.maprva.org

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Ana Lucía González @anlugonz.bsky.social · 3h

This dataviz love letter by Giorgia Lupi and @pentagramdesign.bsky.social using open data from NY transport and "assigning behaviors, movements, and idiosyncrasies to each MTA train" has just brightened my day
www.pentagram.com/work/a-data-...
Animation
www.instagram.com/reel/DPkAziW...

‘A Data Love Letter to the Subway’

A data-driven animation for Fulton Center commissioned by MTA Arts & Design for its 40th anniversary.

www.pentagram.com

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Adam Cox @mradamcox.bsky.social · 16h

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

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

And what’s even more awesome, there are special apps like every-door.app to make it even more easy and convenient to update #shops, #businesses and other POI’s on #OpenStreetMap (you do need an openstreetmap account for that)

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William Martindale @wijama.bsky.social · 1d

I'm learning QGIS for a class and it is a very frustrating experience. Doing anything requires 400 clicks. Whenever I use it I just wish there was a program that let you just type what you want and get a map out. They could integrate it with a statistical program and call it ggmap

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 4h

🤣

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Pablo Hernández Borges @pablohernandezb.bsky.social · 18h

📢 New Map Alert! Just finished this detailed 3D hydrologic map of Venezuela🇻🇪. See the country's rivers like never before!

It's time for another #1Week1Project📅💻, find out how you can make your own gorgeous map too!

Let's open a 🧵👇🏽

#HydrologicMap💧🗺
#DataArt🎨📊

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Geo Week @geo-week.bsky.social · 17h

NPUs are purpose-built chips that can accelerate AI tasks directly on survey and mapping instruments. With tools like NeRFs and onboard processing, remote workflows become faster and more efficient.
Read more >> bit.ly/4n3hEAt
#GeoWeek #NeuralProcessing #Geospatial #TechInnovation

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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 5h

Genuine talent doesn't emerge from a vacuum.

It results from a massive effort: try, fail, learn, and repeat until failure becomes success, whatever that means.

Running the loop for long enough might get you there, hopefully.

Offloading the grind to a machine surely won't.

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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 1d

👽🛸 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 8

Today is part one of a multi-part segment on a UFO sighting dataset.

For part 1, I created an interactive Shiny app to explore the data. Map points are clickable!

colewb.shinyapps.io/alien-atlas/

#DataViz #R #Shiny #ggplot2 #RStats #Alien #UFO

👽 Alien Atlas: UFO Sightings Map

colewb.shinyapps.io

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 9h

I'm a lurker now 😂

Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 16h

Yep, works perfectly now!! For lurkers, #rstats code is:

library(mapgl)
maplibre(center = c(-77.44, 37.54), zoom = 15) |>
add_raster_source(url= 'https://oldinsurancemaps.net/map/sanborn09064_001/main-content/tilejson',
id = "OIM") |>
add_raster_layer(source ="OIM",
id = 'Sanborn1886')

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Dr. U @transport-talk.bsky.social · 11h

There's also {raylibr} that enables you to make snake and DOOM games among others: github.com/jeroenjansse... #rstats

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Eli Pousson @elipousson.bsky.social · 10h

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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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 10h

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own

It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries

benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

#statssky #episky #academicsky

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 17h

It doesn't seem to work if I supply the TileJSON url, but if I supply all of the info within the TileJSON directly it works fine.

docs.mapbox.com/style-spec/r...

Above my pay grade, but maybe @kylewalker.bsky.social can help? Is this on the R conversion side?

Sources | Mapbox Style Spec | Mapbox Docs

A style's sources property defines data sources to be shown on the map.

docs.mapbox.com

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 19h

Super easy to use the mapgl package and @oldinsurancemaps.net to compare 1886 Richmond, VA to today in #rstats. The site of Gallego Mills, the ruins of which became an iconic photo after the fall of Richmond in the American Civil War, is now an office building and freeway.

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Darakhshan Nehal @darakhshann.bsky.social · 17h

Regex!👀

norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 1d

Witchcraft is real and it's stored inside my computer

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 14h

randyvegan?

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 14h

n_deed ...? 😅

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 14h

Indeed.

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 23h

A new model of England's motorways and A roads will lead to safer and more efficient journeys www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/new-mot... press from OS

National Highways Network Model opendata.nationalhighways.co.uk/maps/4b64217...

Released in February but they're promoting it now I guess

#opendata

Map: Overview of the motorways (in blue) and A roads (in red) in the National Highways Network Model (Credit National Highways)

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Robin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 23h

🎉 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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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 1d

Great piece of data journalism on the widespread anomalies in council tax banding, by @jonathanvincent.bsky.social and Sam Fleming and involving our great engineering teams on both the front- and back-end of the project. #ddj Plus a nod to some classic #dataviz design by @theboysmithy.ft.com:

A grid of small charts compares trends in house prices and council tax bills across UK local authorities since 1995. Each chart shows two indexed lines: one for average house prices (blue) and one for average council tax bills (grey), both normalised to 1 in 1995.

The top section displays towns and cities in northern England — such as Barnsley, Bradford, Burnley, County Durham, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Preston, Redcar and Cleveland, and Sunderland — where the two lines rise together over time, indicating that house prices and council tax bills have increased broadly in line.

The lower section forms a cartogram map of London boroughs, where house prices have risen much faster than council tax bills. In boroughs such as Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Camden, Hackney, Islington, and Waltham Forest, the blue line representing house prices climbs steeply compared to the flatter grey council tax line. The layout mirrors the approximate geography of London, with boroughs like Enfield and Barnet at the top and Croydon, Bromley, and Sutton at the bottom.

Source: Financial Times analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Valuation Office Agency (VOA). London cartogram design based on a concept by Max Gadney and Mike Gallagher.

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 23h

the more I think about it, the more I dislike the term "tech industry". Microsoft is a software company. Google and Facebook are advertising companies with a website hobby. Apple and Nvidia are electronics companies. and OpenAI is giant hype-emitting furnace fuelled by investor dollars.

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𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 @mackaszechno.bsky.social · 1d

Playing with the OpenBusData (data.bus-data.dft.gov.uk/downloads/) GTFS feed.

How do you get a bus here from the UK? Rerunning `st_as_sf` with `remove = FALSE` to view the `stop_lon` and `stop_lat` fields to get a better idea... as expected someone reversed the coords 🙃

#rspatial

st_point(c(0.19025, 52.27555)) |> st_sfc(crs = 4326) |> mapview()