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Andrew Lamb @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social · 13d

"Introducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen"

Built in Rust with Apache DataFusion

sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...

Introducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen - Apache Sedona

Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of...

sedona.apache.org

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Yutani @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social · 18d

100 stars🎉 Savvy is a niche framework for those who want to use Rust in an R package yet extendr is not their fit, so I didn't expect to see so much stars!

github.com/yutannihilat...

GitHub - yutannihilation/savvy: A simple R extension interface using Rust

A simple R extension interface using Rust. Contribute to yutannihilation/savvy development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · 22d

Observable Plot has crossed 100,000 weekly downloads (and very close to 5,000⭐️s)! observablehq.observablehq.cloud/oss-analytic...

A time-series chart shows daily downloads of Observable Plot from npm; downloads have grown from a couple thousand per day in October 2022 to about 15,000 per day in September 2025 (7-day moving average); a tooltip shows 20,229 downloads on September 10, 2025.

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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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Apache Arrow @arrow.apache.org · 24d

New to the Arrow blog: ADBC 20 is out: arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/09....

This release adds support for ADBC Driver Manifests, splits up the Rust crates, and much more. Have a read!

Apache Arrow ADBC 20 (Libraries) Release

The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the version 20 release of the Apache Arrow ADBC libraries. This release includes 44 resolved issues from 29 distinct contributors. This is a release of the...

arrow.apache.org

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 24d

🧵@carpentries.carpentries.org was set to get an US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to make an open source (computer coding) ecosystem from a proposal submitted last fall.

The Trump administration told them they had to cease all DEI activity to receive the funds.

They withdrew the grant.

Blog post on The Carpentries web site "Announcing Withdrawal of NSF Open-Source Ecosystems Proposal"

June 9, 2025

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 22d

📈 DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes.

For more details, read the announcement blog post at
duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a...

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

And if you want to learn hands on about some of the new things, come to our ggplot2 workshop at posit::conf(2025) next week

Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · Aug 29

📢 R Dev Day @ Australia

🏢 Monash University, Melbourne
🌐 Remote, Australia
📅 Fri 21 Nov

It's happening!

Apply to attend this free event, to collaborate on contributions to #RStats! You don't need to be an R guru!

Deadline Sunday 16 Nov: pretix.eu/r-contributo...

#RDevDay #RSEng

R Dev Day @ Australia 2025

Fri, Nov. 21st, 2025

pretix.eu

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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · Aug 26

The Notebooks 2.0 gallery now has a dedicated page! observablehq.com/notebook-kit...

Observable Notebooks 2.0 Gallery | Observable

observablehq.com

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Yutani @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social · Aug 25

Yay, accepted!🎉 See you at FOSS4G 2025 in Auckland!

talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025/...

GeoArrow on Web; Can We Live Without GeoJSON? FOSS4G 2025

GeoArrow is a binary data format for geospatial data. It is designed for efficient data exchange, so is suitable for such usages as WebGIS. This talk will give the overview and the current status, inc...

talks.osgeo.org

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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · Aug 19

A little demo of reactive SQL in Observable Notebooks 2.0, first using (native) DuckDB to bake data from a remote source, followed by DuckDB-Wasm to create and query reactive views in the client. Should be released this week!

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · Aug 16

Dev and deploy require of diff skills. @getdbt.com bridges the gap for #data pipelines, but what about MLOps?

I explored how @posit.co {orbital} + dbt delivers "good enough" zero-infra MLOps for batch model scoring in database from python or #rstats models

www.emilyriederer.com/post/orbital...

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MLOrbs?: MLOps in the database with orbital and dbt | Emily Riederer

Playing with the potential, perils, and design principles of deploying ML models into the analytical database using orbital’s sklearn-to-sql translation, sqlglot, and dbt

www.emilyriederer.com

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George Stagg @gws.phd · Aug 14

PSA for anyone beginning to use #wasm #webR to share R code snippets: We have a new short URL for the webR app: webr.sh!

webR - R in the browser

Interactive R environment running in your browser. Execute R code, create plots, and analyze data without installing anything.

webr.sh

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · Aug 15

Woo hoo! The nloptr package is now supported in webR, which means we now have access to the lme4 package for mixed effects modeling! This brings a great deal of statistical modeling power to serverless R workflows. Great work @gws.phd!

#RStats #webR

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · Aug 15

We’re excited to announce the release of {arrow} 21.0.0 for R 🏹📦. Here’s a roundup of the new features and changes, in a 🧵 Full details can be found at arrow.apache.org/docs/r/news/ #rstats

Changelog

arrow.apache.org

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · Aug 10

I had a blast at #useR2025.

Here are my slides on `tinyplot`. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

(Rendering of the title slide is a bit off on mobile. I'll fix when when I get sec.)

tinyplot –

grantmcdermott.com

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 10

So happy to talk about our work on sparsity at #useR2025 today! Slides for anyone interested

emilhvitfeldt.com/talk/2025-08...

sparsity support in tidymodels, faster and less memory hungry models

Showcasing better sparsity support in tidymodels

emilhvitfeldt.com

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George Stagg @gws.phd · Jul 30

Thanks to some joint work with @jeroenooms.bsky.social the latest dev build of webR now supports the {curl} package, along with many other packages that rely on it! 🎉 If you're able to use a WebSocket SOCKS proxy (outside of the browser), you can now use {curl} to make HTTP requests in webR.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 30

Making libcurl work in webassembly

https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-curl/

Making libcurl work in webassembly

We explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy.

jeroen.github.io

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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · Jul 29

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today: Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable

observablehq.com

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Yutani @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social · Jul 28

savvy v0.8.13 is released!🎉 This version contains a small improvement to handle a scalar NA nicely. This is what I felt a bit boring when I ported a package from extendr to savvy.

github.com/yutannihilat...

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Jul 26

📣 Join us for our AGU2025 session IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in The Cloud"! Can't wait to see you there :)

Submissions are due *Wednesday, July 30*! Visit our website for more details and to submit:

events.geojupyter.org/conferences/...

A flyer for our AGU sesion "IN029 - Open Source Geospatial Workflows in the Cloud: Tools and Techniques for Data Access, Analysis, Visualization, Storytelling, and Sharing in the Python and Jupyter Ecosystem". Includes a URL and QR code for our website (https://events.geojupyter.org/conferences/2025-agu/). Lists invited speakers (Dr. Fernando Pérez, co-founder of Project Jupyter, Dr. Tasha Snow, co-founder of CryoCloud, and Dr. Julia Lowndes, Openscapes Founding Director), conveners (Qiusheng Wu, Max Jones, Chelle Gentemann, Tyler Erickson, Wilson Sauthoff) and organizers (Matt Fisher).

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Yutani @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social · Jul 25

It's sad that this package has been broken like this at least since several months ago, yet no one except me noticed...