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weekend reading
- Weekend Reading: How We Collect Data, Mapping the Camp Fire, and Earth's Great Unconformity
🗺 How We Get Data Collected in the Field Ready for Use My colleagues Bill Dollins and Todd Pollard (the core of our data team), wrote this post detailing how we go from original ground-based data collection in Fulcru…
- Weekend Reading: Mastery Learning, Burundi’s Capital, and SRTM
🎓 Mastery Learning and Creative Tasks Khan Academy’s Andy Matuschak on tasks that require “depth of knowledge” versus those that have higher “transfer demand.” Both can be considered “difficult” in a sense, but teach…
- Weekend Reading: Largest Islands, Linework, and Airline Mapping
This week is some reading, but some simple admiring. I wanted to highlight the work of two cartographers I follow that is fantastic. We live in a great world that people can still make a living producing such work. 🏝…
- Weekend Reading: Ubiquitous Computing, Versioning SQL, and Video Game Maps
🎙 Computing is Everywhere A great interview with Bret Victor on the Track Changes podcast. His work has always been an inspiration for how to think about both creating things and teaching people. 📊 Git Your SQL Toge…
- Weekend Reading: Railway Logos, Meditation, and the Next Feature Fallacy
🔩 The Next Feature Fallacy The vast majority of features won’t bend the curve. These metrics are terrible, and the Next Feature Fallacy strikes because it’s easy to build new features that don’t target the important…
- Weekend Reading: Exploring Zanzibar, Singapore of the Future, & Watching Basketball
🇹🇿 Exploring Zanzibar with Mapillary A fun travel post from the Mapillary team after FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam. A drive around Zanzibar collecting images for OpenStreetMap mapping. Also check out part 2 of the journey…
- Weekend Reading: Typing on iPad Pro, Climate Optimism, Visualizing GeoNames
📱iPad Diaries: Typing on the iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard Folio I swung through an Apple Store a couple of weeks ago to check out the new hardware. The Smart Keyboard Folio has been hard to imagine the experience…
- Weekend Reading: Wind Turbines, Bruce Sterling, and Economic Ideas
⚡️ The US Wind Turbine Database Ben Hoen from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab gave a lightning talk at Geo2050 about this project, a map and database of the operational wind generation capacity in the US. The map c…
- Weekend Reading: CAC, Alexander Hamilton, and Flow
🛒 What is Customer Acquisition Cost? This is a great overview of the importance of CAC in a SaaS business. One of the enjoyable things about SaaS is how much you can modify and optimize what you’re doing by measuring…
- Weekend Reading: AV-Human Interaction, iPad Pro, and Buying Out Investors
🚙 How Self-Driving Cars Could Communicate with You Interesting work by Ford’s self-driving team on how robotic vehicles could signal intent to pedestrians. You normally think Waymo, Tesla, and Uber with AV tech. But…
- Weekend Reading: Forecasting, Raster CV, Free University Courses
🔮 Forecasting at Uber The scale of the prediction problem Uber has is wild. This is an intro to a series on methods they use for forecasting demand for their marketplace. 🛰 raster-vision A neat project from the Azav…
- Weekend Reading: Terminals, Cryptography, and Products as Functions
💻 Learning from Terminals to Design Future User Interfaces Pieces like this often come off like geeks calling for a return to how it "used to be" — "HyperCard was the peak of dev tools". But this author makes some ex…
- Weekend Reading: Geocomputation, Customers, and Linear Growth
🎛 Geocomputation with R I’ve had R on my list for a long time to dig deeper with. A while back I set myself up with RStudio and went through some [DataCamp]() stuff. This online book seems like excellent material in…