Mastodawn

Dave Smith Apr 17, 2023

Wonder of Science Apr 15, 2023

A fascinating view of Martian moon Phobos crossing the face of the Sun captured from the surface of Mars by NASA’s Perseverance rover on April 2, 2022.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI
Further reading: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-captures-video-of-solar-eclipse-on-mars

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Video of Solar Eclipse on Mars

The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the Red Planet’s two moons, to study how its orbit is changing over time.

NASA

Dave Smith Apr 17, 2023

This 3D mosaic of Mars is pretty cool! https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/intro_c.html

The Murray Lab - The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars

Dave Smith Feb 28, 2023

Canada Climate Atlas https://canadiangis.com/the-climate-atlas.php

The Climate Atlas

The Climate Atlas of Canada is an innovative tool allowing users to better comprehend climate change in Canada. It combines scientific data, mapping, and stories, and helps encourages action and solutions. The goal of the mapping application is to help make climate change more meaningful and engaging to Canadian Citizens. Check out how this online mapping application is helping to ...

Canadian GIS & Geomatics

Dave Smith Feb 20, 2023

Nice app for comparing coordinates in different EPSG codes:

https://app.dogeo.fr/Projection/#/point-to-coords

#gischat

Quelle est cette projection?

Dave Smith Feb 18, 2023

Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪Feb 18, 2023

Next level #DataScience proof of concept:

Turned a simple QGIS Processing model into a #DVC data-versioned #geoprocessing workflow

"Why is this great?" you may ask ❓

DVC tracks data, parameters, and code. If anything changes, we simply rerun the process and DVC will figure out which stages need to be recomputed and which can be skipped by re-using cached results.

This can lead to huge time savings compared to re-running the whole model 👩‍💻🥳

Dave Smith Feb 18, 2023

Handy keyboard shortcuts for #jupyter https://www.dataschool.io/jupyter-notebook-keyboard-shortcuts/

Fly through Jupyter with keyboard shortcuts 🚀

Learn the 25 most useful keyboard shortcuts for Jupyter Notebook or Lab (including hidden gems 💎) so that you can speed up your workflow!

Data School

Dave Smith Feb 18, 2023

Florence Nightingale and her innovative #dataviz
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f3th3w

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

Tim Harford discusses the power of the nurse statistician’s groundbreaking diagrams

BBC

Dave Smith Feb 18, 2023

Washington post is replacing Mapbox with open source:

https://www.kschaul.com/post/2023/02/16/how-the-post-is-replacing-mapbox-with-open-source-solutions/

How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions - Kevin Schaul

Last week I published a story for The Washington Post that required an interactive slippy map. Lookup maps like this are a common pattern to show a geographic trend and let readers explore the data …

Dave Smith Feb 13, 2023

Scott marsroverdriver Maxwell Feb 13, 2023

We live in an age where (a) we can know in advance that we're going to be hit by a 1m-diameter meteor, (b) know where and when the thing is going to land, and then (c) see video of it almost instantly thanks to some random person's pocket supercomputer. Don't tell *me* we're not living in the future. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/live-newly-discovered-asteroid-set-26222381