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Getting Good

Converting New York’s Forest Carbon Assessment to Tidymodels

tidymodels

R

Tutorials

AGB

Data science

Spatial

geospatial data

machine learning

Lessons, pain points, and benefits from a bottom-up rewrite of a production modeling pipeline

New allometric models for the USA create a step-change in forest carbon estimation, modeling, and mapping

ecology

papers

remote sensing

machine learning

earth science

AGB

New preprint with Lucas Johnson, Grant Domke, and Colin Beier

Test warnings faster

R

Tutorials

Package development

If the function sucks, hit da bricks

rsi 0.2.0 is now on CRAN!

R

Spatial

geospatial data

R packages

More data products, fewer bugs, less time wasted on data management slop.

rsi is now on CRAN!

R

Tutorials

Spatial

geospatial data

R packages

Your one-stop shop for spatial ML data retrieval and pre-processing.

Why is `View()` capitalized, anyway?

R

And down the rabbit hole we go.

Helping R find the right methods for unserialized complex objects.

R

Tutorials

Spatial

geospatial data

R packages

Automatically load package namespaces when reading serialized objects with this One Quick Trick.

Downloading STAC data using rsi when you’ve got a geographic CRS or don’t want a composite.

R

Tutorials

Spatial

geospatial data

R packages

Methods for straying slightly off the happy path: just say NULL.

Classed conditions from rlang functions

R

Tutorials

Package development

Improve your testing, your control flow, your programming life.

spatialsample 0.5.0 is now on CRAN

R

Spatial

geospatial data

spatialsample

R packages

Bug fixes and reexports, oh my

Adding context to maps made with ggplot2

R

Tutorials

Spatial

geospatial data

How to set the extent of a map based upon a single layer.

Executing R code from untrusted sources in minimal environments

R

Tutorials

Package development

Security improvements, if not fixes, by restricting what potentially-malicious code gets access to.

Introducing rsi

R

Tutorials

Spatial

geospatial data

R packages

Download imagery from STAC APIs, compute awesome spectral indices, spend less time fussing with spatial nuisances.

Three fun R functions

R

Tutorials

All the cool kids were jumping off the bridge!

Cloud-Native Geospatial If You Don’t Speak Snake

R

Spatial

geospatial data

New post on the Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation’s blog

Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds

R

Tutorials

Package development

Or rather: growing objects is inefficient. But it’s maybe not as big a deal as I’d believed.

Yes, you can rescale Landsat images after compositing them

R

geospatial data

Tutorials

A note about something I keep needing to figure out.

A long digression about the word ‘vector’

R

Tutorials

Sharing an ‘aha’ moment from a few years ago.

From the inbox: How can I get fold assignments from spatialsample?

R

spatialsample

tidymodels

R packages

geospatial data

Tutorials

Straightforward methods for answering a straightforward question.

Counting the number of times each citation is used in a Quarto document

Quarto

Tutorials

Data science

Documenting this trick here for future me, six months from now.

Using in-line grouping to fit many models

R

Tutorials

Data science

An alternative to nesting for fitting separate models to multiple groups.

waywiser is now a part of rOpenSci

R

waywiser

Spatial

Data science

R packages

Plus version 0.3.0 now on CRAN, and a new preprint

How to run R jobs across multiple (local) computers

R

Tutorials

Spatial

Data science

TIL this extremely, extremely easy thing

Commands I Use

shell

Everyone else was jumping off the bridge, so I did too.

spatialsample 0.3.0 is now on CRAN

R

spatialsample

tidymodels

R packages

geospatial data

Repeats, standardization, repeats, spatial clustering, repeats, and more.

Classification and mapping of low-statured shrubland cover types in post-agricultural landscapes of the US Northeast

ecology

papers

remote sensing

machine learning

earth science

environmental science

shrubland

New article out in the International Journal of Remote Sensing!

Legibility and seats at the table

Data science

ecology

earth science

Reflections on FEMC 2022.

The tools I loved this year

R

Spatial

Data science

The void yells back.

How to include sf data in R packages

R

Tutorials

Spatial

Data science

An extremely opinionated guide for an extremely common problem.

Fine-resolution landscape-scale biomass mapping using a spatiotemporal patchwork of LiDAR coverages

ecology

papers

remote sensing

machine learning

earth science

AGB

New (open-access!) article out in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation!

How rsample keeps memory usage low

R

rsample

tidymodels

Copy-on-modify is pretty neat.

I know what I did last summer

R

Internship

Quarto

An RStudio internship retrospective

Waywiser version 0.1.0 is now on CRAN!

R

waywiser

tidymodels

R packages

geospatial data

A new {yardstick} extension package for calculating spatial autocorrelation in model residuals.

Filtering ground noise from LiDAR returns produces inferior models of forest aboveground biomass in heterogenous landscapes

ecology

papers

remote sensing

machine learning

New article out in GIScience & Remote Sensing

How to use Quarto for Parameterized Reporting

R

Tutorials

Quarto

You know. If you wanna.

Progress, Purpose, Process

Reflecting on another year.

terrainr: An R package for creating immersive virtual environments

New open-access paper published in the Journal of Open Source Science.

Automated {drat} uploads with GitHub Actions

R

Tutorials

CI

CD

GitHub Actions

Continuously deploy your code to personal CRAN-like repos, automatically and for free!

Interactive landscape simulations for visual resource assessment

New preprint for the 2021 Visual Resources Stewardship Conference.

Virtual environments talk at useR! 2021

With slides and a rough outline available on GitHub.

What’s new in terrainr 0.4.0?

The new CRAN release of terrainr improves consistency, CRS logic, and fixes some bugs.

terrainr 0.3.0 is out today

R

Data science

terrainr

New version, who this?

Model averaging methods: how and why to build ensemble models

R

Data science

Averaging predictions for fun and profit – and for dealing with the uncertainty of model selection. With examples in R!

Some Updates

R

Twitter

phd

terrainr

beaver

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Make a Retweet Bot in R

R

Twitter

ecology_tweets

Y’know. If you wanna.

Installing the TIG stack on Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi

Tutorials

Data Visualization

Monitoring

Telegraf

InfluxDB

Grafana

A guide to installing InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Grafana on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian Buster. Unlike every other guide like this on the internet, this one works.

A minimalist visualization of Coronavirus rates

R

Made with Shiny and R

Making Excellent Visualizations

Data Visualization

Tutorials

Part 3 in the data visualization series

Mechanics of Data Visualizations

Data Visualization

Tutorials

Part 2 in the data visualization series

Theory of Data Visualizations

Data Visualization

Tutorials

Part 1 in the data visualization series

Announcing {spacey}, now on CRAN!

R

R Packages

maps

spacey

geospatial data

USGS data access and rayshader maps, done cheap.

Announcing {heddlr}, now on CRAN!

R

R Packages

R Markdown

Write less boilerplate, get more done.

Thesis Now Available in ESF Digital Commons

Publications

Beaver

It’s a real humdinger.