I've been prototyping a lightweight Sphinx extension that lets you add *interactive code cells to your docs*. It uses Binder Team under the hood. Give it a shot, I'd love to hear what people think! sphinx-thebelab.readthedocs.io

We just released ApacheArrow 1.0.0, the first formally "stable columnar format" release with a move to SemVer for the libraries. We have a much improved website, too. Read more about what's new arrow.apache.org/blog/2020/07/2…

Yay! pandas officially added consistent missing data handling to its roadmap! 🎉 pandas.pydata.org/docs/dev/devel… If you'd like to see this sooner rather than later and want to help with making it actually happen (and not only words on a roadmap ;-)), don't hesitate to contact me

Next FOSDEM: 6 & 7 February 2021, online dlvr.it/Rfr4r5

The Gentoo and Ubuntu of datascience: thinking about a source distribution based on mamba, quetz, boa and conda-packages, so users can recompile with custom compiler flags and use special build-features. I'll get a prototype of this into boa soon! wolfv.github.io/posts/2020/09/…

Presented at GeoPythonConf about the ongoing developments to improve spatial processing of vector data with PyGEOS and Shapely 2.0. Some nice improvements are coming! See slides at jorisvandenbossche.github.io/talks/2020_Geo…

Help us shape the future of GeoPandas development. We're launching our first GeoPandas User Survey! forms.gle/ZYAbPeXURGvudY… It takes 5-10 minutes. After we close it in about a month, we will share the results with you. Thank you!

I just published "The templating system of nbconvert 6". Many thanks to David Brochart Maarten A. Breddels Matthew Seal, and all other contributors to this release! 🙏 blog.jupyter.org/the-templating…

The program for #openbelgium21 is live 🚀🚀! Check out the line-up on 2021.openbelgium.be and register for FREE for your favorite sessions. #OpenKnowledge #OpenData

Next week Thursday, at the #DaskSummit2021, we're having a workshop on "Scaling geospatial vector data" with dask. Feel welcome to join! May 20, 11:00-13:00 UTC, see summit.dask.org/schedule/prese…

We are often asked to comment on the differences between Dask and Vaex. We hope you will find this useful! vaex.io/blog/dask-vs-v… #Python #Vaex #Dask #DataScience

With support from NumFOCUS and gdal org's sponsors gdal.org/sponsors/index…, we took a big step yesterday in fixing things so the GDAL guy in France isn't in this spot all alone. lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal…

Cloud Optimized Point Cloud, or COPC, seeks to live in the same niche as COG does for raster data, which allows for single-file storage of a the most common container format with support for spatially accelerated incremental remote access. Read up on it at copc.io/DRAFT-SPEC.html

The #lidar community has lost a giant. I really enjoyed building things with you LAStools.

FOSDEM 2022 will be online dlvr.it/SB4p6d

Thanks TileDB for contributing PDAL's enhanced Python API. Thanks to this, you can now compose PDAL operations in Python instead of just passing JSON to PDAL. It should open up huge possibilities for people mixing point clouds with Python's ML machinery.

The first release of GeoParquet is out! This is a new geospatial vector data (point, line, polygon) format that is built on Parquet, an awesome columnar-storage format. See github.com/opengeospatial… for more information and join the growing community! (1/4)

PDAL 2.4.0 is released. It includes COPC.io read and write support, time queries in TileDB, comment support in JSON pipelines, and embedded always-on LAZ support due to LASzip Apache relicensing. Release notes at github.com/PDAL/PDAL/rele…

Fresh from the oven: QGIS 3.26, STAC and COPC nicely working together! Join us today in a QGIS Open Day session from 13:00 UTC where we will discuss the latest news about point clouds and 3D! youtu.be/v-ZMRpk0mv8

Our own Stéphane De Greef has fully covered the entire Belgian capital #Brussels by bike to create street-level imagery in 360° using one of our GoPro Hero Max's. All footage is available on Mapillary .com under the CC-BY-SA license. Massive applause👏👏👏 mapillary.com/app/user/Stefd…