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by qfwfq_ 3y ago
Geopandas has had spatial indexing available for quite a long time... https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/reference/sindex.html I think that the challenge for most is that the PostGIS query planner does
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by qfwfq_ 3y ago
But, many R tools are already vectorised, so your shift from lapply() to mclapply() is about as fair a comparison as claiming it's "just" a shift from python's builtin map() to pool.map(). Anybody can play this game, and
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by qfwfq_ 4y ago
I wonder whether this just creates another "underclass" of scientific laborers... I think we need tool-builders as academics . The only thing that academics recognize intellectually are peers. The rise of RSEs is a kind of intell
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by qfwfq_ 4y ago
This also sounds a bit like Planetside 2 [1], which had a similar structure. A relatively large open world where small "provinces" were contested by factions in FPS King-of-the-Hill combat. This meant that any one province action
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by qfwfq_ 4y ago
No, nulls matter a great deal. If you want to test a claim in Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing, the "significance" of the claim is in direct reference to the null. Changing a null will change the significance of the alternative
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by qfwfq_ 4y ago
Given the explosion in the number of journals and the impossibility of effective peer review, being published in a journal does not mean what it used to. This is part of the material drivers for the replication crisis (journals can no lon
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by qfwfq_ 5y ago
We use jupyterbook (geographicdata.science/book), and it has seriously simplified our workflow. The project is building useful features very quickly, and is very responsive to feedback & requests. Big props to their team.
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by qfwfq_ 6y ago
I disagree that it's a "true horror to use." The set of supported built-in classes grows significantly by the day. It's not as good when used for wholly unstructured streams of data (e.g. tuples of mixed type, dicts with
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by qfwfq_ 6y ago
> This situation is very annoying, especially for a touch typist as my fingers are always on hjkl and my thumb on the spacebar. This makes my thumb knuckle constantly brush the trackpad and activate it. I thought standard touch typing po
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by qfwfq_ 7y ago
I think this is exactly how R's accreted features to make it do things that it was never designed to do. When the "tool you use" becomes the "kind of developer you are ," things get a little restrictive.
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by qfwfq_ 7y ago
Cosmicomics has long been my single favorite collection of written work. Calvino's amazing.
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by qfwfq_ 8y ago
The efficiency gap is just one measure of partisan bias that can be used to assess the utility/efficacy of any redistricting plan. The game the authors propose is (basically) an algorithm to draw good districts between two players. So,
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Hacking Out “Sociological [Statistical] Gobbledegook” in Partisan Gerrymandering(nbviewer.jupyter.org)
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by qfwfq_ 9y ago
I've also seen this happen, where an article was designed in pre-consultation with a journal editor in my field. We submitted (what I felt was) a dubious paper initially. Reviews were very harsh, but the paper was not rejected. I was a
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by qfwfq_ 11y ago
I think that, once the suggestion of replacing single member elections with anything approximating proportional representation is made, the focus on managing the electoral system we DO have is lost. Tons of measures made by political scient
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by qfwfq_ 11y ago
I'm a PhD student studying gerrymandering, and I think it's cool this is getting written about in the NYT. But, there are very good models of gerrymandering built off of well-informed counterfactual analysis of generalized linear
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by qfwfq_ 11y ago
I've seen quite a bit when porting a statistical library that used Python 2's default floor/int division behavior for quite a few operations. Sometimes, though, the 2 version had bugs because of this behavior. So, the bugs