New blog out singing the praises of gdal org's 3.6 release that includes an ApacheArrow-based read API for vector layers! I'm excited about faster reading of files but there's a whole lot more to it. Read on! dewey.dunnington.ca/post/2022/gdal… #rspatial #rstats #gischat

Gr8 post by Nic Crane on what {readr} + {arrow} are doing to infer what kind of data are in your columns, or what you can do tell #rstats instead of letting 💻 guess.

1/ Holiday season is upon us! What can you do as an Engineering Manager to help your team + leaders out? There’s no point pushing new things out. But you also don’t want to leave in limbo. So what can you do?

Thanks Victoria Police for joining us this morning, reminding drivers to stop at stop signs & observe the 30km speed limit! Thanks Macaulay Greater Victoria School District students for the great road safety messages! CRD ICBC

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Announcing Hanukkah of Data, a series of 8 free data puzzles, to be released starting on Dec 18th. Help Sarah find the family holiday tapestry before her father notices it's missing. Register at hanukkah.bluebird.sh to receive an email update when the first puzzle is released!

Today at 17:30 UTC (12:30 America/New York) is our first official ApacheArrow / #rstats development-specific sync call! This time I'll be the guest chair sitting in for Nic Crane...join us to discuss all things related to the Arrow ecosystem in R! (DM me for joining info)

Heads up users of the {bcdata} #rstats package! There is a change in the next release of bcdata (v0.4.0) that may break some existing code - relating to R function calls inside filter() calls. See how this change may affect you in the development docs: bcgov.github.io/bcdata/dev/art…

I really enjoy #HanukkahOfData. This is a really fun story around data challenges. I'm solving each challenge faster every day as I know the schema better. Thanks Saul Pwanson and Devottys! hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5783/

🔥Major Announcement🔥 We created a new home for all of our resources on reproducible geographic data analysis, modeling, and visualization with open source software! Visit geocompx.org. #rstats #rspatial #python #geopython #geocompx

ICYMI: {bcmaps} 1.1 #rstats📦was released a few weeks ago🎉 The main update == the BIGGEST datasets available in the 📦 are now sourced directly from the BC Data Catalogue github.com/bcgov/bcmaps 🎩-tip Andy Teucher Bo Sheker

{bcdata} #rstats📦updated on CRAN w/ a user-facing change (😳 but it will be _fine_). Locally-executed fxns in filter() when querying spatial data now need to be wrapped in `local()` to follow {dbplyr} best practices. Details here: bcgov.github.io/bcdata/article… 🙏 Andy Teucher Bo Sheker

Once again the most widely downloaded GIS software on the planet is reduced to begging for funding, in an amount that would barely equip a small county office with the leading proprietary brand. Please give. 🙄 blog.qgis.org/2023/01/16/cro…

We have no formalized form of mentorship in the tech industry, and that's a travesty. If you are a senior person reading this, see if there are people near you that you can help.

ICYMI: @bcstats is hiring! Bring your #datascience & leadership skills and join us as a Senior Data Scientist #rstats #Python bcpublicservice.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting…

Check out our brand new "choose your own data wrangling comparisons" notebook to see some common side-by-side wrangling methods in JS, Python, SQL, R and Excel! This was a fun one🥰 👇👇👇