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There’s lots of cool chatter about the potential for Apache Arrow in geospatial and for geospatial in Apache Arrow. Some recent …
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Inspired by Martin Fleischmann’s post on spaital joins using Dask and geopandas, I thought I’d give it a go in R! …
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It’s time for another release of the wk package! The wk package is a small R package that powers spatial data interchange in …
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After spending a few kiddo nap times experimenting with low-level Apache Arrow representations of vectors in R, I remembered a lively …
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A new version of wk is fresh on CRAN! Version 0.5 introduces some new features to the framework, incorporates most of the functionality …
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Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a post on using R and sf to work with stream networks. The post was about low-level analysis with the …
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About the time the COVID-19 pandemic began, I started getting interested in some low-level geometry programming in R. Around that time …
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In some recent adventures parsing text embedded within binary files, I came across the need to correctly interpret input bytes from a …
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Avid readers of this blog, if there are any, would have figured out that I really love low-level data IO and hacking proprietary file …
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Today the pivotal and final chapter of my Ph.D. thesis was published in Science of the Total Environment! I’ve been excited about …
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