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Proposing and discussing ideas for Community Calls

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R-Spatial #31

Open yabellini opened 2 months ago

yabellini commented 2 months ago

Who is the audience?

Who might want to know this? What other groups or organizations might be interested?

Anyone working or wanting to start working with spatial data/GIS.

Why is this important?

There have been many interesting developments and changes in the spatial environment.

What should be covered?

Package ecosystems/Roadmap?
Applications?
@potterzot propose advice about working with spatial data at scale
@mpaulacaldas would like to learn more about how other R users are using Arrow/DuckDB/PostGIS/splarklyr for spatial analysis with large data.
@Aariq wonders if the community would be interested in hearing about the work-in-progress geotargets package (developed with @njtierney)

Suggested speakers or contributors

Who would you like to chat with?

Resources you would recommend to the audience

Spatial Statistics for Data Science: Theory and Practice with R: https://www.paulamoraga.com/book-spatial/
Geospatial packages at rOpenSci: https://ropensci.org/packages/geospatial/

Aariq commented 2 months ago

More about geotargets: https://njtierney.github.io/geotargets/