Nicole Smith

Geo-shepherd herding a rowdy mix of lake-related geodata to the final destination with #rstats, #Python, and #ArcGIS.

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

@PASmsu2 So what I hear is, my indigenous-influenced username got replaced & erased! 🤔I wonder if I can direct the attention of limnologists such as yourself to an article that explores the impact of such omissions on the stories that get told. Something easy, nice pics, no paywall?😋

[Patricia Soranno @PatSoranno]

Argh, left of a key collaborator, @hierochloe off! Sorry Nicole, was having major Twitter fails and cut and pasted over your name!. This thread took me a while to master.

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

For several years, "Map the Lake-Pond (Naming) Line" sat nearly atop my back burner list of seemingly uncalled-for data viz ideas I couldn't let go of. Feeling lucky to have geeky collaborators who made this fun pub possible, including the map!

[Patricia Soranno @PatSoranno]

So much geeky limno-fun analyzing these datasets. Ponds ARE common in Eastern US. Part of our #lagos_lakes project.

[Patricia Soranno @PatSoranno]

Ever wonder what the most common lake name is in the US? Where are more lakes versus ponds? And, are ponds smaller than lakes anyways? Great fun working on this paper with great collaborators - @KCheruvelil @buenoss_diazz and K Webster. https://t.co/8bvZZOpG72

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

@BobWMurphy We may lack high speeds, but at least we have diligent customer service efforts such as, "Attention Amtrak passengers: ... I have no updates" and [on which MI-bound train may arrive 1st] "No idea, all I know is, when I go home at night, all the trains are gone."👌

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

R notebook stuck on "pandoc: out of memory" error 251. Is it mapview, leaflet? Simplify maps. No. Is it the sheer size of my document? Cut-paste x20. No. Is it this tiny 4x4 tibble display? YES. WHY?! It was from a larger table with a factor column that should have been char.

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

GIS and data folks: were you planning to access U.S. gov't hosted data or websites in the next little while? In the event of a federal shutdown in 9 hours, your resources may go offline!

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

I would hate to see this happen! I've recently been exploring the NAIP dataset and noting why it's helpful that it's available in the public domain for some new research directions in our lab. https://t.co/6vhjgDNJJu

[Steve Sharp @GIS360]

Speak out and keep @USDA NAIP from becoming a walled garden https://t.co/yWPTfAz7Xf

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

My boldest, most oblivious #BMSB invader yet. Don't I do enough debugging already?

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

I wonder how many reasonably direct @RideCATA itineraries contain neat math patterns. Today my 3rd bus was the sum of the 1st 2 (16>15>31).

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

How do you abbreviate "documentation" as a singular noun? Does "doc" do it for you? I see "docs" plural. Heard "doco" once, sounds retro.

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

Can't miss LAGOSNE on this long list after author includes example map from @__jsta's vignette. Documentation data viz -> data visibility https://t.co/EaQH6uaJHH

[Posit PBC @posit_pbc]

Here's the latest post from RViews "Recent R Data Packages" https://t.co/ApHNkWPwUg

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

Served on a jury trial. The "no outside influence" experience has underscored how ALL of my thinking & big decisions are tech-assisted now.

[Patricia Soranno @PatSoranno]

LAGOS-NE is ready for download! Water quality data on thousands of US lakes-Please share link #opendata #openscience https://t.co/uPyGuqfspJ

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

Is it just me, or is 'axis.text' the typing equivalent of a tongue-twister? #ggplot #axixtext #axistest

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

Fantasy stat 1: # of times users have played "gumshoes" with the dataset instead of finding what I documented. 2: Did they save time or not? https://t.co/RsWbna4g3r

[Applied Geographics @AppGeo]

"Metadata: Love note to the future or jumping the shark?" Rich Grady reflects on metadata - past & future. https://t.co/rNAo8EGpxa #Metadata

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

I wonder how often I've already googled "arcpy copy only selected fields" in despair of an adequate solution as concise as SQL SELECT

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

My exploratory data analysis style is "down the 🐇 hole." My #rstats notebooks got more organized when I outlined 1 question per chunk first.

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

@BobWMurphy Or, free college supporters also support progressive taxation leading to higher taxes only for a small minority. Not a surprising overlap.

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

Like this, but I was thinking of something with more geometry embedded in the creation & display. https://t.co/fWE3rRwmzU (making-of video) https://t.co/89VRMrhxQ5

[Nicole Smith @hierochloe]

Accumulating EO imagery + more 3D GIS = so much opportunity for awesome new Rama (world) visualizations, no? #ArthurCClarke #mapprojections