Dan Miller Runfola

Geographer, Professor, Big Data Guy. Always looking for good Ph.D. students in the TB+ satellite imagery and deep learning space. More at

[OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data @humdata]

GeoBoundaries shares #data on HDX covering subnational administrative boundaries of 129 countries.

🔎 Explore the #geodata for #India and many other locations: https://t.co/QSVskUAXqS

[William & Mary News @WMNews]

Are we prepared for the threats and opportunities that #ArtificialIntelligence will bring?
Come to the #wmTackLecture on May 2 to learn more: https://t.co/vWSVKmVXjo

[GeoSocial At William & Mary @GeoSocialWM]

On #OneTribeOneDay, it only takes one person, one gift — no matter the size — one click and one moment to make a big impact. Support @WMdatascience (Data Science Fund: 4699) and help us change the world! https://t.co/ZjcE7OeRhm

[William & Mary News @WMNews]

“It is up to us to determine whether [#AI] will lead to a more vibrant world, or to one in which power is consolidated in an exceptionally small number of hands,” says @geogdan.

Come to his #wmTackLecture on May 2 to find out more.

https://t.co/FgvQU9WblZ

[Long Tran-Thanh @ltt_hal]

Are you a bright researcher in Foundations of AI and looking for a faculty position? Interested in joining one of UK's most successful CS departments? We have multiple opening positions at both Assist. and Assoc. Prof levels (deadline: 15/05/23):
https://t.co/zPOiqAbxgb

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

(Apologies for the rather awkward visualization - Google Forms!)

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

For the last ~year, I've asked students to fill out a form to request a letter of recommendation. 121 responses later, I have a pretty good picture of how things time out. Bottom line: ask your professors for letters between April and September if you can!

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

Hot take after playing with Bard: the reason Google delayed wasn't just ethics or errors. Bard just isn't that good compared to the competition. #ChatGPT #Google

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

I demand faster access to Bluey episodes as a part of the new US/AUS Nuclear Submarine deal. Petition coming on https://t.co/4u8wMlAIDV. Write your congresscritter. #bluey #Parenthood

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The movement of the tectonic plates along the fault captured by satellites at Nurdağı, Turkey, following the 6-7 February earthquakes. The relative shift is around 3-4 meters

[📷Andreas Schafer, Maxar Technologies]

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

Very excited to be kicking off this round of our CCI experiential learning, focused on disinformation & data poisoning. We'll be doing some manual labeling later, curious how big of an issue it actually is today. @GeoSocialWM @WMgeoLab @WMdatascience

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

Not official just yet, but gb 5.0 is soft launched to the API and git repository (https://t.co/kqqsvIHSY7) . Plan on pushing it to the main page next week, just in case of any breaking issues.

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

@martinfleis Oh this was way way down in the weeds re: my personal situation (needed a version of dask that worked with a very specific mpi setup, which snowballed across a number of other dependencies). But you're amazing for asking!

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

Python dependencies just kill me sometimes. Geopandas? Great. Geopandas + dask? Also great. Geopandas + dask + dask_jobqueue? Absolutely impossible, why would you even ask that.

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

@gdb I love when I'm typing a comment, and copilot finishes it with a recommendation that sounds like a cry for help. I hear you, "everyone else the bot was trained on". We are not alone 😂

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

geoBoundaries 5.0 is *almost* ready to go. Turns out you can't simply git push 6GB of raw updates :)

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

Appreciate Chad Hendrix (of UN OCHA / HDX fame) describing our meeting Friday as "group therapy for the administrative boundary community" :) - spot on, we need it.

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

Starting in on migrating some of the https://t.co/iMFZIuwdzy build scripts back local (from the cloud). Cloud == great for bootstrapping, but long term sustainability for cost is fairly firmly on prem right now, at least for us.

[Dan Miller Runfola @geogdan]

congrats to Yawei Xiong (https://t.co/IJRdBTq1e4) for succesfully defending her dissertation here in Applied Science!