I’m happy to announce that I’ve recently published the velox R package. velox allows performing common raster operations in R much faster than alternative packages. The following plot provides a brief overview of the speed-up associated with using velox, as opposed to the well-known raster package: velox is ...

In this blog post I explore the question of how to color maps in a way that ensures optimal readability, while using a small set of colors. I also introduce the new MapColoring R package, which provides a practical solution to this problem in a user friendly manner. The Problem ...

For a project hosted at the ETH Risk Center, a fellow PhD student and I are currently trying to extract and vectorize a large number of cartographic features from a collection of scanned maps. Though the project is still in an early phase, we were already able to do a ...