python / oceans / open source at Esri. Geographer. Beta-grade Hacker. Map Reduce anyone?
Brookline, MA
Joined June 2007
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Ray was one of those people who did the work that needed doing and never asked for anything back. Rest in peace, you will be missed.
Some sad #python news, Ray Donnelly (@_tmp_account on here, also github.com/mingwandroid) has passed away after an epic battle with cancer.
A tireless helper of others, he asked for those who can to donate to the hospice that took care of him:
gofundme.com/f/help-Ray-fund…
Marie Tharp and the most iconic map in the physical sciences: sciencenews.org/article/mari…
“Though I am gone, I urge
you to answer the highest calling
of your heart and stand
up for what you truly believe.”
— John Lewis
Shaun Walbridge retweeted
I am pleased to announce Blue Earth Bathymetry, an edited GeoTIFF DEM for small-scale seafloor mapping. Worldwide coverage. 21,600 x 10,800. Public domain. Learn more about it here: shadedrelief.com/blue-earth/
Shaun Walbridge retweeted
A few months back, I started to write about training to run a sub 2:30 marathon in my 40s. But then it took me elsewhere—to a much deeper understanding of my roots and of why we have limits to begin with. wired.com/story/marathon-spe…
Shaun Walbridge retweeted
Spot on: "There is something quintessentially Trumpian about the claim of total authority and zero responsibility. He alone can save us, he insists, but don’t blame him if he doesn’t."
mailchi.mp/thebulwark/maximu…
All kinds of amazing data visualization and mapping work going on to help make COVID-19 understandable to all, thank you to the designers, cartographers, data scrapers and everyone in-between to make this happen.
Then there's this map for MA: boston.com/news/local-news/2…
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Latest case trajectories for major countries:
• US confirmed case count rises above the rest
• Look at all those countries clustered around "doubling every 3 days". Governments must act now to get off that path.
• Read about flattening the curve: ft.com/content/e015e096-6532…
NPR podcast on handling the coronavirus with kids has a luxury jewelry consignment sponsor. Bizzaro world till the sponsor contracts expire.
We know a doctor in Boston who is symptomatic, but unable to be tested based on current testing criteria. Fixing our testing infrastructure can't happen soon enough.
Something my team built that I'm stoked to see come to life for our users.
Jupyter Notebooks are now integrated @ArcGISPro! Not only do they seamlessly interact with ArcGIS elements but they also easily integrate open source libraries like pandas and seaborn. ow.ly/lkp950yHZN3 #DevSummit
Glad to hear it! @orhun_sow and I are on the R team if you have any questions
So far the Conda support for R Notebooks is one of the most exciting news from #esridevsummit 🐍 #DevSummit
Audiobook narrator reading out "the 2000s" as "the oh ohs" — that's really a thing? As if our millennials didn't have enough to deal with.
Boston, November 1st 1919: Boston police with raided communist materials, collected in the Palmer Raids of the First Red Scare:
Agean masterpiece from 1500 BCE, hundreds of years before the bronze age collapse, just wow: magazine.uc.edu/editors_pick…