robinlovelace

robinlovelace, 8 months ago to random

I'm super stoked about the recent #Fosstodon announcement. Ideal recruitment opportunity and have bigged it up on the other site. Let's see if it generates an influx of new users + donations 🤞 Huge credit to @kev + team for being democratic and asking the community. Happy to moderate in En a Es, when I get more time!

robinlovelace, 9 months ago to random

Prepparing materials for @opengeohub 2023 and just added this to my slides. It's been there for over a year but still find the automatic handling of spherical geometry in {sf} amazing. If you're always transforming from geographic projection (e.g. EPSG:4326) to projected (e.g. EPSG:27700 in the UK) and new to #rstats this will blow your mind 🤯 #rspatial

robinlovelace, 8 months ago to random

Interested in large #OpenStreetMap datasets for research? New (and still slightly work in progress) tutorial for @opengeohub may be up your street. #workinprogress so feedback v. welcome before presenting/launching this tomorrow 🚀 🚀 https://ogh23.robinlovelace.net/osm

robinlovelace, 8 months ago to python

New #geocompx blog post on Geographic Data Analysis in #RStats and #Python. The first time equivalent code for reading, plotting, and analysing geographic vector data in these two popular #DataScience languages are provided side-by-side 🚀
#OpenSource: https://geocompx.org/post/2023/ogh23/

robinlovelace, 8 months ago to random

Just launched: #rstats package {stplanr} version 1.1.2 🚀

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robinlovelace, 5 months ago to python

This is magic, #Python and #RStats auto installed in seconds on GitHub Actions, which runs all the code in the literate programming system Quarto, renders the results, and deploys them. Technology for reproducible research has come a long way over last decade, and it's accelerating 🚀

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robinlovelace, 5 months ago to random

📢 The Geocomputation with R front cover image competition is live 📢 See details and how to submit your entry here: https://geocompx.org/post/2023/map-cover-competition/ #rstats #gischat #geocompx

robinlovelace, 3 months ago to random

Ever wanted to do spatial clustering of orign-destination (OD) data? Well you may want to now! University of Leeds Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) and Alan Turing Institute PhD student Hussein Mahfouz has created this early-stage visualisation of spatial clustering of these zone-zone flows 🏗️ Case study of #Leeds. Looks beautiful AND useful 🎉

robinlovelace, 8 months ago to random

New functionality for joining spatial networks is now working 🎉 Coming to a free and open source package for sustainable transport planning for reproducible research soon...

robinlovelace, 3 months ago to datascience

On Thursday I delivered the first session of our new and improved Transport Data Science course at Leeds Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) / Urban Data Science (UDS). For anyone interested in reproducible + open #DataScience for transport: https://itsleeds.github.io/TDS/slides/1-intro.html

robinlovelace, 2 months ago to random

Looking forward to the Network Generation Hackathon tomorrow in the Alan Turing Institute 🚀 For anyone interested in reproducible transport network generation, processing and modelling with open source software this could be of interest, still opportunities to attend online: https://buff.ly/3SUZSm3

robinlovelace, 5 months ago to svelte

This is a bit of a long shot, but if there are any #Svelte developers out there interested in mapping who would be willing to spend a bit of time helping a novice (me) out in some experiments to improve UX in web apps for sustainable transport planning, please get in touch. #GeoSpatial #DataScience

robinlovelace, 24 days ago to datascience

Request for testing/comment: can any #rstats users out there give the #wip {styler.equals} package a spin and kick its metaphorical tires 🚲 ? Install with remotes::install_github("robinlovelace/styler.equals") and see more at https://github.com/Robinlovelace/styler.equals Especially for those who prefer typing = over <- due to laziness or any other reason! Not intending to start a flame war 🔥 arrows are great too ⬅️ Any comments/suggestions welcome 🙏 #rspatial #DataScience #style

robinlovelace, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to foss

Request for help from anyone with #rstats package development experience or knowledge of time data, especially if you've worked with .ical files before: checks failing in the {calendar} package preventing updated on CRAN and I'm not sure why 🤷 . Thanks to new contributors for reviving this package after ~5 years dev hiatus! Please spread the word @rOpenSci and anyone in this #foss for #DataScience (or at least dates) space! Details: https://github.com/ATFutures/calendar/issues/50

robinlovelace, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Reading a bit of old school literature for once. There be wisdom in these here words: "Probably the whole of Newton’s controversy with Leibniz, which ruined English mathematics for over a hundred years, would have been avoided if Newton had been robust and able to enjoy ordinary pleasures." Ouch 😅 bonus points to anyone who can guess author without looking it up : )

robinlovelace, 3 months ago to datascience

So true! For this reason the Transport Data Science module I lead focusses on applications, taking the initiative (you choose the topic you apply the science to and datasets), and empirical exploration. Written for early programmers but equally applicable now #DataScience

robinlovelace, 6 months ago to instagramreality

Anyone wanting to use their toots for public communication of science/tech/research, you might want to include public posts in search results. And for anyone who likes the idea of #socialmedia for good, lot's of people in the #fediverse I imagine! Context: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111312362135573139

robinlovelace, 4 months ago to random

Very happy to have submitted a paper to #GISRUK 2024 in my home city of #Leeds. It was a collaborative effort by me, ITS Leeds colleague Zhao Wang, Will Deakin from Network Rail and Josiah Parry from Esri. All open and reproducible of course thanks to Quarto template by Steph De Sabbata: https://github.com/sdesabbata/quarto-gisruk Details: watch this space!

robinlovelace, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

My first ever map for the #30DayMapChallenge: location data of 141k road traffic fatalities in Great Britain, 1979-2022. Spot the coordinate reference issues! Belated day 1: points. #geocompx

robinlovelace, 8 months ago to vscode

#vscode users out there: any ideas why my Devcontainer works remotely on #github Codespaces, by fails when I Reopen in Devcontainer?

• See stackexchange question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76998376
• Details on GitHub with reproducible example (can anyone reproduce?): https://github.com/Robinlovelace/opengeohub2023/issues/14#issuecomment-1696953530

robinlovelace, 5 months ago to datascience

New section on contraction hierarchies and traffic assignment just added to Geocomputation with R 🎉
In preparation for the 2nd Edition 🚀 #gischat #DataScience #Geocompx

robinlovelace, 3 days ago to random

Git and GitHub are key tools for sharing your work reproducibility and the greater good 🌱 However they are often seen as too 'hardcore' or developer-focussed to be used by researchers and data analysts. That's a misconception! Great vid to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dd7KRpKeaE

robinlovelace, 9 months ago to opensource

This is an absolute revelation: I posted identical questions on 2 sites:

• one #opensource with a few $1000 funding
• another proprietary with several $BILLION
  Guess which one generated the best responses... Resilient community networks rebuilding 🌱 come join 🚀
  (x posted from ****ter ; )

robinlovelace, 26 days ago to random

So many rewarding things about building in the open. One of the biggest is the sense of "Wow I did it" you feel when new contributors get involved. I remember the first time I contributed to an open source project and it felt amazing, built by the community, for the community.