Yutani
@yutannihilation-en.bsky.social
Wannabe Rstats-fu in the Far East.
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This @posit.co::conf(2025) talk is everything: "The geospatial suite for Arrow is relatively new...so this is a PSA that it exists and it's really powerful and impressive. I actually also found it very easy to use...and I didn't really have much trouble learning it" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHyg...
Make Big Geospatial Data Accessible with Arrow (Cari Gostic, Sonoma Technology) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This @posit.co::conf(2025) talk is everything: "The geospatial suite for Arrow is relatively new...so this is a PSA that it exists and it's really powerful and impressive. I actually also found it very easy to use...and I didn't really have much trouble learning it" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHyg...
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We recently completed the move of the #stac-geoparquet specification documents to a new repository in the @radiant.earth Github org: github.com/radiantearth...
Check out the rendered HTML here: radiantearth.github.io/stac-geoparq...
Check out the rendered HTML here: radiantearth.github.io/stac-geoparq...
stac-geoparquet-spec
Open, community specification for storing STAC in GeoParquet
radiantearth.github.io
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We recently completed the move of the #stac-geoparquet specification documents to a new repository in the @radiant.earth Github org: github.com/radiantearth...
Check out the rendered HTML here: radiantearth.github.io/stac-geoparq...
Check out the rendered HTML here: radiantearth.github.io/stac-geoparq...
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We’re heading to Auckland 🇳🇿 for @foss4g2025.bsky.social to talk Rust 🦀 + open geospatial.
Catch our team showing how modern tools make geospatial faster and more interoperable.
Find us for zines + join the GeoRust sprint.
Get the deets: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-10...
#foss4g #osgeo
Catch our team showing how modern tools make geospatial faster and more interoperable.
Find us for zines + join the GeoRust sprint.
Get the deets: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-10...
#foss4g #osgeo
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We’re heading to Auckland 🇳🇿 for @foss4g2025.bsky.social to talk Rust 🦀 + open geospatial.
Catch our team showing how modern tools make geospatial faster and more interoperable.
Find us for zines + join the GeoRust sprint.
Get the deets: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-10...
#foss4g #osgeo
Catch our team showing how modern tools make geospatial faster and more interoperable.
Find us for zines + join the GeoRust sprint.
Get the deets: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-10...
#foss4g #osgeo
The Global FOSS4G conference in Auckland is just a few weeks away! I'm sorry I forgot to share this here, but I'm excited to be speaking about the state of GeoArrow **on the web**.
21th November, 11:00–11:25
talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025/...
21th November, 11:00–11:25
talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025/...
November 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Global FOSS4G conference in Auckland is just a few weeks away! I'm sorry I forgot to share this here, but I'm excited to be speaking about the state of GeoArrow **on the web**.
21th November, 11:00–11:25
talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025/...
21th November, 11:00–11:25
talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025/...
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And join Jack live on @source.coop's Great Data Products podcast on 11/19 to hear how we're making cultural memory collections easier to access and harder to delete. greatdataproducts.com/housekeeping...
Upcoming Episode: Inside Harvard's data.gov Archive
How the Harvard Library Innovation Lab is preserving and making Data.gov datasets discoverable using BagIt and static search.
greatdataproducts.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
And join Jack live on @source.coop's Great Data Products podcast on 11/19 to hear how we're making cultural memory collections easier to access and harder to delete. greatdataproducts.com/housekeeping...
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New version of Rust Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet is out -- includes new new metadata parser, new avro reader, geometry and variant support 🤯 arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
Apache Arrow Rust 57.0.0 Release
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce that the v57.0.0 release of Apache Arrow Rust is now available on crates.io (arrow and parquet) and as source download. See the 57.0.0 changelog for a full...
arrow.apache.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New version of Rust Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet is out -- includes new new metadata parser, new avro reader, geometry and variant support 🤯 arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
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I'll be keynoting at R/Pharma a week from today! The conference is free and virtual. I'll be focused on the mundane use cases of LLMs for wrangling data with #rstats, and the content should feel applicable for folks outside of pharma—come through. :)
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/Ai-geyS63...
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/Ai-geyS63...
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I'll be keynoting at R/Pharma a week from today! The conference is free and virtual. I'll be focused on the mundane use cases of LLMs for wrangling data with #rstats, and the content should feel applicable for folks outside of pharma—come through. :)
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/Ai-geyS63...
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/Ai-geyS63...
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The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched
@columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
@columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
Announcing Columnar
Back to the future of data connectivity
columnar.tech
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched
@columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
@columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇
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mcptools 0.2.0 is on CRAN! mcptools implements the Model Context Protocol in #rstats, allowing ellmer users to share context and tools more easily between LLM applications.
Read more: github.com/posit-dev/mc...
Read more: github.com/posit-dev/mc...
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
mcptools 0.2.0 is on CRAN! mcptools implements the Model Context Protocol in #rstats, allowing ellmer users to share context and tools more easily between LLM applications.
Read more: github.com/posit-dev/mc...
Read more: github.com/posit-dev/mc...
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This trick‑or‑treat season brings a new treat: we’ve released Apache Arrow 22.0.0! Read the announcement details here:
arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
Apache Arrow 22.0.0 Release
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 22.0.0 release. This release covers over 3 months of development work and includes 213 resolved issues on 255 distinct commits from 60 distinct contrib...
arrow.apache.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This trick‑or‑treat season brings a new treat: we’ve released Apache Arrow 22.0.0! Read the announcement details here:
arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10...
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Quarto 1.8 is available! 🎉
New features include: ✨ Light & dark mode support for brand colors and logos 📦 Brand extensions for sharing across projects ♿ HTML accessibility checks with Axe-core 🔧 Access to execution context from code cells
Full details: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
New features include: ✨ Light & dark mode support for brand colors and logos 📦 Brand extensions for sharing across projects ♿ HTML accessibility checks with Axe-core 🔧 Access to execution context from code cells
Full details: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
Quarto 1.8 – Quarto
Quarto 1.8 improves brand support, introduces brand extensions, adds HTML accessibility checks, and gives access to execution context.
quarto.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Quarto 1.8 is available! 🎉
New features include: ✨ Light & dark mode support for brand colors and logos 📦 Brand extensions for sharing across projects ♿ HTML accessibility checks with Axe-core 🔧 Access to execution context from code cells
Full details: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
New features include: ✨ Light & dark mode support for brand colors and logos 📦 Brand extensions for sharing across projects ♿ HTML accessibility checks with Axe-core 🔧 Access to execution context from code cells
Full details: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
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I recently added a Deepwiki badge to mirai.r-lib.org.
Not because I think the current documentation is lacking 😅, but it takes you to an `Ask DeepWiki` prompt with the full mirai source code as context so you can ask questions (and get answers) in *any* language.
Any feedback welcome! #rstats
Not because I think the current documentation is lacking 😅, but it takes you to an `Ask DeepWiki` prompt with the full mirai source code as context so you can ask questions (and get answers) in *any* language.
Any feedback welcome! #rstats
Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R
Designed for simplicity, a mirai evaluates an R expression asynchronously in a parallel process, locally or distributed over the network. Modern networking and concurrency, built on nanonext and NNG, ...
mirai.r-lib.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I recently added a Deepwiki badge to mirai.r-lib.org.
Not because I think the current documentation is lacking 😅, but it takes you to an `Ask DeepWiki` prompt with the full mirai source code as context so you can ask questions (and get answers) in *any* language.
Any feedback welcome! #rstats
Not because I think the current documentation is lacking 😅, but it takes you to an `Ask DeepWiki` prompt with the full mirai source code as context so you can ask questions (and get answers) in *any* language.
Any feedback welcome! #rstats
Thanks to @paleolimbot.bsky.social's great work, the sedonadb R package is now also available to Windows via R-universe 🎉 I'm excited particularly because I believe sedonadb is the easiest tool for R users to access GeoParquet data. #rstats
apache.r-universe.dev/sedonadb
apache.r-universe.dev/sedonadb
sedonadb: Bindings for Apache SedonaDB
apache.r-universe.dev
October 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thanks to @paleolimbot.bsky.social's great work, the sedonadb R package is now also available to Windows via R-universe 🎉 I'm excited particularly because I believe sedonadb is the easiest tool for R users to access GeoParquet data. #rstats
apache.r-universe.dev/sedonadb
apache.r-universe.dev/sedonadb
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"Introducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen"
Built in Rust with Apache DataFusion
sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...
Built in Rust with Apache DataFusion
sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...
Introducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen - Apache Sedona
Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of...
sedona.apache.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"Introducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen"
Built in Rust with Apache DataFusion
sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...
Built in Rust with Apache DataFusion
sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...
100 stars🎉 Savvy is a niche framework for those who want to use Rust in an R package yet extendr is not their fit, so I didn't expect to see so much stars!
github.com/yutannihilat...
github.com/yutannihilat...
GitHub - yutannihilation/savvy: A simple R extension interface using Rust
A simple R extension interface using Rust. Contribute to yutannihilation/savvy development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
100 stars🎉 Savvy is a niche framework for those who want to use Rust in an R package yet extendr is not their fit, so I didn't expect to see so much stars!
github.com/yutannihilat...
github.com/yutannihilat...
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Observable Plot has crossed 100,000 weekly downloads (and very close to 5,000⭐️s)! observablehq.observablehq.cloud/oss-analytic...
September 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Observable Plot has crossed 100,000 weekly downloads (and very close to 5,000⭐️s)! observablehq.observablehq.cloud/oss-analytic...
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🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap
A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package.
Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code.
Read online: tmap.geocompx.org
#rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps
A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package.
Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code.
Read online: tmap.geocompx.org
#rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps
September 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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New to the Arrow blog: ADBC 20 is out: arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/09....
This release adds support for ADBC Driver Manifests, splits up the Rust crates, and much more. Have a read!
This release adds support for ADBC Driver Manifests, splits up the Rust crates, and much more. Have a read!
Apache Arrow ADBC 20 (Libraries) Release
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the version 20 release of the Apache Arrow ADBC libraries. This release includes 44 resolved issues from 29 distinct contributors. This is a release of the...
arrow.apache.org
September 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New to the Arrow blog: ADBC 20 is out: arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/09....
This release adds support for ADBC Driver Manifests, splits up the Rust crates, and much more. Have a read!
This release adds support for ADBC Driver Manifests, splits up the Rust crates, and much more. Have a read!
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🧵@carpentries.carpentries.org was set to get an US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to make an open source (computer coding) ecosystem from a proposal submitted last fall.
The Trump administration told them they had to cease all DEI activity to receive the funds.
They withdrew the grant.
The Trump administration told them they had to cease all DEI activity to receive the funds.
They withdrew the grant.
September 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🧵@carpentries.carpentries.org was set to get an US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to make an open source (computer coding) ecosystem from a proposal submitted last fall.
The Trump administration told them they had to cease all DEI activity to receive the funds.
They withdrew the grant.
The Trump administration told them they had to cease all DEI activity to receive the funds.
They withdrew the grant.
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📈 DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes.
For more details, read the announcement blog post at
duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a...
For more details, read the announcement blog post at
duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a...
September 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
📈 DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes.
For more details, read the announcement blog post at
duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a...
For more details, read the announcement blog post at
duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a...
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And if you want to learn hands on about some of the new things, come to our ggplot2 workshop at posit::conf(2025) next week
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
And if you want to learn hands on about some of the new things, come to our ggplot2 workshop at posit::conf(2025) next week
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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📢 R Dev Day @ Australia
🏢 Monash University, Melbourne
🌐 Remote, Australia
📅 Fri 21 Nov
It's happening!
Apply to attend this free event, to collaborate on contributions to #RStats! You don't need to be an R guru!
Deadline Sunday 16 Nov: pretix.eu/r-contributo...
#RDevDay #RSEng
🏢 Monash University, Melbourne
🌐 Remote, Australia
📅 Fri 21 Nov
It's happening!
Apply to attend this free event, to collaborate on contributions to #RStats! You don't need to be an R guru!
Deadline Sunday 16 Nov: pretix.eu/r-contributo...
#RDevDay #RSEng
R Dev Day @ Australia 2025
Fri, Nov. 21st, 2025
pretix.eu
August 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
📢 R Dev Day @ Australia
🏢 Monash University, Melbourne
🌐 Remote, Australia
📅 Fri 21 Nov
It's happening!
Apply to attend this free event, to collaborate on contributions to #RStats! You don't need to be an R guru!
Deadline Sunday 16 Nov: pretix.eu/r-contributo...
#RDevDay #RSEng
🏢 Monash University, Melbourne
🌐 Remote, Australia
📅 Fri 21 Nov
It's happening!
Apply to attend this free event, to collaborate on contributions to #RStats! You don't need to be an R guru!
Deadline Sunday 16 Nov: pretix.eu/r-contributo...
#RDevDay #RSEng
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The Notebooks 2.0 gallery now has a dedicated page! observablehq.com/notebook-kit...
Observable Notebooks 2.0 Gallery | Observable
observablehq.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The Notebooks 2.0 gallery now has a dedicated page! observablehq.com/notebook-kit...