Finally got a reasonable dask setup running on top of MPI/Torque, and now we're running about 700 propensity score models using satellite data from all around the globe!

Seperately, I also learned how to tweet from a linux terminal, so expect all sorts of silly things henceforth.

congrats to Yawei Xiong (linkedin.com/in/yawei-xiong…) for succesfully defending her dissertation here in Applied Science!

Starting in on migrating some of the geoboundaries.org build scripts back local (from the cloud). Cloud == great for bootstrapping, but long term sustainability for cost is fairly firmly on prem right now, at least for us.

Python dependencies just kill me sometimes. Geopandas? Great. Geopandas + dask? Also great. Geopandas + dask + dask_jobqueue? Absolutely impossible, why would you even ask that.

Appreciate Chad Hendrix (of UN OCHA / HDX fame) describing our meeting Friday as "group therapy for the administrative boundary community" :) - spot on, we need it.

geoBoundaries 5.0 is *almost* ready to go. Turns out you can't simply git push 6GB of raw updates :)

Not official just yet, but gb 5.0 is soft launched to the API and git repository (GitHub.com/wmgeolab/geobo…) . Plan on pushing it to the main page next week, just in case of any breaking issues.

Very excited to be kicking off this round of our CCI experiential learning, focused on disinformation & data poisoning. We'll be doing some manual labeling later, curious how big of an issue it actually is today. GeoSocial At William & Mary geoLab William & Mary Data Science

The movement of the tectonic plates along the fault captured by satellites at Nurdağı, Turkey, following the 6-7 February earthquakes. The relative shift is around 3-4 meters [📷Andreas Schafer, Maxar Technologies]

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