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Global discret grids

November 3, 2024 | Michael

Hexagonos – CC-BY-SA by Fernando Reyes Palencia Day 4 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Hexagons » (previously). Hexagonal grid? We will do statistical binning on a hexagonal grid, but not just any grid. Geodesic Discrete Global Grid S...
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Death penalty

November 3, 2024 | Michael

Death Valley Winter – CC-BY by street.light Day 3 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Polygons » (previously). A classic world choropleth map. We’ll use the Comparative Death Penalty Database (Anckar and Denk 2024) available on https://da...
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Street names

November 2, 2024 | Michael

Lyon – CC-BY-NC-ND by Emmanuel Fromm Day 2 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Lines » (previously). We’ll make a map of the street name gender in Lyon. We need a database of french first names where we’ll find the gender. We will extract...
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Lidar

November 1, 2024 | Michael

Aiguille du Midi – CC-BY-SA by Ivan Borisov Day 1 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Points » (previously). IGN is scanning France using LIDAR. More than half the country is available for downloading currently. Let’s play with points aro...
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Free Data and AI Courses with 365 Data Science—Unlimited Access until Nov 21

November 1, 2024 | Aleksandra Yosifova

365 Data Science opens its doors this November! From November 1 to November 2, 2024 (8 a.m. UTC), enjoy unrestricted access to its entire platform, including a selection of R programming courses and projects. This offer includes expert-led courses, hands-on projects, and interactive exercises on various data science and AI topics. With flexible, 24/7 access, … ... [Read more...]

the polls weren’t wrong [book review]

October 31, 2024 | xi'an

While Nate Silver and his colleagues (as The New York Times Nate Cohn) have brought (part of) the general public to adopt a (more) scientific perspective on political polls, the way to combine them, and the need to keep uncertainty fully quantified (witness this recent “Two Theories for Why the ...
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Dealing with Windows File Paths in R

October 30, 2024 | Brenden Smith

Recently, I started a new position that requires me to use a Windows computer (I miss my MacBook Air dearly). This has led me to learn about the subtle differences when using R on different operating systems. If you are like me, you probably wor...
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