This is bad.

heck yes, fully compliant PDF with a ton of math and images and tables, all in just a few minutes of work #QuartoPub

#quarto people. Public announcement: if you have a figure label and a caption but you don’t output anything in the chunk, quarto will fail with no helpful warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I’m undecided on how I feel about vibe coding. On one hand I can make these in minutes rather than hours or days. On the other hand, I could have used making these as a way to learn lua which I still hardly know.

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There have been two times at work where I needed a tool for getting and I went home and vibe coded them. Both were #neovim tools. One was for working with targets pipelines in #rstats. And the other was for building .bib files in #quarto and other markdown formats.

Does that use a lot of energy? [Update] An interactive tool that lets you compare the energy consumption of various products and activities.

Super cool tool that compares energy usage of different things: driving, heating a home, using an LLM, charging your phone, watching Netflix, etc. made by the brilliant @hannahritchie.bsky.social

hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...

And predictably, I spent several hours formatting tables………

Need to see what these folks are doing. Quarto tables are my enemy when output to word. Seems like a workaround is gt() to flextable(). Who knew.

This is a good idea. Great, diverse collection of data vis.

Statistics in Natural Resources: Applications with R by Matthew Russell
#RStats
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Soooo…..the maptiles download was fine I just needed to increase the maxcell parameter in geom_spatraster_rgb(). Oops.

Any #rstats folks out there that has a good example of how to make maps with a topo base map in quarto. I’ve been using the maptiles package to get ESRI world topo map but the base maps are always very low resolution and poor quality and look terrible in a document.

As someone who isn’t necessarily a fan of Rstudio, I think it’s the way to go for beginner R folks, particularly if R is their first programming language. Programming is confusing and Rstudio requires little to no configuration to get started which removes some of the a barrier to entry.

This is so depressing.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

The world has lost a true inspiration and legend. 💔

#GISChat

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The #ForestService and the #BureauOfLandManagment should do a better job predicting vegetation at regular time intervals. FIA and AIM plots should make this possible. Landfire and products like TreeMap or BigMap are good but you would think they could do better if it was prioritized more. #ecology

I’m going to add to this list: selling up to 3.2 million acres of public lands. (Also I don’t think Irans government is a force for good, but I don’t think Trump and the morons he appoints have any good plans dealing with Iran).

Good.

Let's dive into this a bit. A short and very incomplete thread on US Forest Service research. 1/

I think this a lot right now: maybe “x” is a good idea, but there is no way in hell that I’m trusting the current morons in charge with implementing it. Ex: unified fire, gov wide API, etc.

This tutorial will level up your skills and show you how to build animated wind maps from scratch. Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/e_8QaFn6 And if you’re ready to go deeper into the world of spatial data, check out my new book: Mapping Worlds with R: Your Journey from Beginner to Data Cartographer It’s packed with real projects, full code, and clear explanations for every step of the map-making process. Grab the book: https://payhip.com/b/MH9Ot Let’s catch the breeze, beautifully, in R. #rstats #GIS #DataVisualization #ClimateData #ERA5 #gganimate #WindMapping #Geospatial #EnvironmentalScience #OpenData #MilosMakesMaps #MappingWithR

Want to turn raw wind data into a mesmerizing, animated map?
With R, it’s easier than you think.
My new tutorial shows you how, step by step.
Let’s catch the breeze. ⤵️
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#GIS #DataViz #gganimate #metR #WindMap #ClimateData #SpatialAnalysis #MilosMakesMaps

This should surprise absolutely no one.

Birds of the World - New study finds where birds are declining most; some locales with positive trends “This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species. And that provides us a better lens to understand t...

New study finds where birds are declining most. High trend resolution data reveals complexity of bird population changes. “This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species,” said Dr. Amanda Rodewald.

MAGA perception: the gov is now more efficient.
Reality:

my supervisor had to rewrite my entire performance evaluation because it contained the word “biodiversity”

NO ONE is well staffed this year — ESPECIALLY the Incident Management Teams, which are largely made up of non-primary fire personnel.

If your rep is saying otherwise, they’re lying to you.

🫠

Ha, this is a joke.

My team has seven positions on it; five foresters and two archaeologists.

We were going to be fully staffed this year — then Trump took office. We lost two to the hiring freeze, and our remaining archaeologist took a new job b/c he figured he was going to be RIFed.

Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).

Non-Government Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists A community support and networking event hosted by rOpenSci and Openscapes

📣 Current and former #USgov data scientists!

Join @ropensci.org + @openscapes.bsky.social on May 6 for a community support and networking event:

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Co-hosted by former feds (NOAA, NASA, DOE, NSF, NIH + Federal Reserve) to discuss their paths to other sectors. #dataBS