Interesting results from benchmarking #duckdb on large spatial queries - www.malcolmmeyer.com/posts/benchm... tl;dr - use "WHERE ST_Intersects(g, geom) IS TRUE" IS TRUE being key there - with a bbox filter to get faster results #gis #geospatial #cloudnative #parquet #osm #openstreetmap #overture

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I don't think he's on Bluesky, but I really enjoyed this write up of EARL conference ideas by Matthew Gwynfryn Thomas. "Hospitality is all about going the extra mile for your guests. [...] What might it look like to bring that same spirit of hospitality into the world of data and insight?" #RStats

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New in querychat: multiple tables, chat history, data-dict, and easy extraction of findings into Quarto, Shiny, Jupyter, etc. querychat is now much more capable beyond just querying "pre-defined" Shiny outputs. Available for both #rstats and #python. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

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While I am still making my way through all the @posit.co talks, one talk that impacted me the most was @wesmckinney.com talk on AI and coding and a few folks in the #rstats community of written about it including @frankiethull.bsky.social and @jonthegeek.com

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After a massive cleanup of knitr issues/PRs in the past few days, I can finally stop being jealousy of Will Landau for his zero open Github issues in {targets}: yihui.org/en/2026/09/k... For the record, he has one open issue at the moment and so do I (debating with myself whether I should close it).

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