One of the benefits of R having many ways to do the same thing is that quite often any bottlenecks can be addressed by using a different library or approach. We've tried to standardise on dplyr which has definitely helped performance and transferability/understanding of code.

Not a direct answer, sorry, but I'd make sure your team is familiar with profiling/performance measurement before starting to think about approaches adv-r.hadley.nz/perf-measure...

Absolutely. It's not just that this is a huge digital delivery, it's that it's a whole new service model regardless of the digital bit.

Big Q for me on digital ID is how will it work for the common travel area with Ireland. Plenty of Irish citizens who work in the UK, use health services in NI, plus those in NI who wouldn't consider themselves UK citizens. All are allowed to move and work freely at the moment.

£4.3M invested per job, 'up to' doing some heavy lifting as well there

Mauretania was coal fired until the early 1920s, its progress across the ocean was dependent on 350 crew members shovelling coal in shifts. The 1000 tonnes of coal consumed each day produced roughly 6x the per-passenger carbon emissions of a modern transatlantic flight (4x after conversion to oil).

Only better outcome would be that Ned/Stan migrates back next year with a special friend. Looks lonely up on his lamppost of an evening.

I didn't know about this until now, and was happier in those simpler times

NI using the Irish Grid makes a lot of sense for planning/building/mapping in border areas.

I don't like the idea of 'the problem of large scale maps meeting at the border', from www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/pr...

Case really well made, I'm sure this will happen in time in GB. I'd love to see the case made for NI, at the moment despite UK in the title it's very much a GB paper.

Great day at #ukgc25, well worth the journey over and kudos to the organisers and volunteers on a well run and enjoyable event. My brain is overfull from the excellent discussions.

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www.buswatchni.com looks like lines 4 and 7 the worst lately

Ancient post lives here now, doing some housekeeping after importing old posts from the other place pbarber.github.io/codeandnumbe...

And a nice fade to/from openstreetmap and the old map of the Ormeau Rd/Ballynafeigh area