Environmental science and technology. Opinions my own. \
#rstats, ML, Boston and spatial data. \
Boosts imply causation.
Blog post about our new preprint: what do the new FIA allometrics mean for existing model-based forest carbon accounting projects?
Who do I know that's going to #AGU24 ? I'll be there all week!
The Journal of Open Source Software is looking for new editors -- and, relevant to my community here, we're particularly looking for folks with a background in geographic data science, remote sensing, ecology, or urban science
ANNUAL NLCD
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/annual-national-land-cover-database
In general, open source development patterns mean that improvements to one low-level component can have exponential benefits as that change gets incorporated down the dependency chain
It's easy to see why FOSS was originally a sort of utopian ideal
I think the coolest thing about open source is that I keep discovering new tricks inside GDAL that make my life better, and I can instantly also run those tricks in an R or Python or whatever environment because those ecosystems are building on the same fundamental bricks
to some extent: I wonder if tools would be better if we were still in a place where we could enforce data standards on providers
maybe we can't do that anymore! but that definitely feels like a different era than past tools, which could say "you're doing my data standard or you're left behind"
this is a half-formed opinion! but: older tech would force migrations of data into newer formats, and damn anyone who didn't. I genuinely don't have a good understanding of how to evaluate the current status quo, which doesn't force migrations but does force new tools to support old formats
honestly, I sorta wonder if the support from tooling (VirtualiZarr, GDAL) to make legacy formats more performant in modern environments winds up being a net benefit in the end
and, more to the point, why standards without adoption and a robust ecosystem are useless
thank you apple for giving annoying people (me) our salient example of why standards matter for the next 15 years
Extremely excited to share that rsi has gone through peer review and been accepted by rOpenSci!
The new version of the package incorporates suggestions from the review process. Big improvements to masking and documentation plus a ton of assorted bug fixes. Huge thanks to @mdsumner , @jhollist , and Felipe Carvalho!
shocked and amazed I went two whole months without needing to install gdal on my work computer
The red line in #Boston has gotten so much better that I'm honestly surprised when riding it. I didn't realize trains could go that fast on the Central-Harvard curve!
Looks like a serious GeoDuckdb might come into reality soon: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb_spatial/pull/383
Anyone have recommendations for Spanish language podcasts where the hosts talk a bit slow?
Jesus Christ Superstar starts and ends with the same banger song so that you don't realize it's the only one that's memorable
but I know myself, and if I unwatch this repo I'll never flip it back on 
it is a tough day to be watching any posit repositories
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