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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 27/09/2026

Ahh, that's better! Nice, clean 3D ggplots with no texture bleeding (because those are real 3D polygons, automatically transformed into the 3D coordinate system of the underlying ggplot!) render_polygons( us_states, data_column_top = "total_pop_15", color = "height" ) #RStats #rayshader

3D ggplot with texture bleeding on edges

3D ggplot with solid polygon edges, no texture bleeding

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't know if they express my soul but they sure show my age. I still remember the first time I played Quake: you can look UP?! And later: What can change the nature of a man?

9 games: Planescape Torment, Bioshock, Doom, Quake, Dune II, Duke Nukem 3D, Command and Conquer, Baldur's Gate II, and Might and Magic IV

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it me or are we seeing similar animated maps appear with surprising speed and frequency across the usual platforms in the past month? The similarities go beyond the actual visualization to include typography, text placement, even the description...

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okta actually dangles the checkbox "Remember me for 7 days" but refuses to let you check the box. I think it's in cahoots with Duo.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 28/09/2026

Lovely and deep visual op-ed by Giorgia Lupi: "A.I. is a different kind of technology, because it can deliver an end result before creative thinking has happened at all" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 20/09/2026

2019: "I don't want to learn Blender: I'm going to write my own renderer in R, so I never have to use a GUI and can write all my scenes as code!" 2026: "... and then you call raygui(), and you can explore and change your scene without writing any code at all!" 🤷‍♂️ #RStats #rayrender

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

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LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 12/09/2026

Finally: #rayshader will soon have the beautiful sunsets made in #RStats I've always dreamed of, along an actual sense of scale for your landscapes, thanks to some big updates I'm pushing to #rayrender and #skymodelr 😀 You can ask me more in Houston at #positconf 👋

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm still rather proud of the data transformation I did for this map. We had rasters showing ship density, and we made a map of those, but I also wanted to make the routes stand out. So, I eyeballed the main corridors and drew out a main route skeleton.

A map of vessel traffic in the seas around Alaska. Lines track major routes, and each line is split into multiple colors representing types of ships (cargo, tanker, tugs, and fishing). The thickness of lines varies by the level of traffic.

A monochrome raster of ship density in areas around Alaska. There are bright linear features where many ships traverse.

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New on the blog: "GenAI for the Static Cartographer," in which I express my concerns about AI but then give ideas on how to use it, anyway. Features results both impressive and mediocre. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/g...

A GIS view of the coastline of maritime southeast Asia, overlaid with a varity of low-res polygons.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 04/09/2026

A fly-by ski trip generated entirely in #RStats with #rayshader and #rayrender, featuring realistic lighting for that location at a specific date and time, properly marked roads, trails, ski trails, streams, lakes, houses, and 2 million (!) individually rendered trees! All generated from {sf} data!

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Land cover of Cambodia. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of Cambodia's land cover

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

For World Ocean Day, here's a visualisation of the world's marine protected areas. #ggplot2 adventures, an #rstats tale

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Rivers of Minnesota. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of Minnesota's rivers and lakes

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Rivers of Illinois. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of Illinois' rivers and lakes

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Land cover of Honduras. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Land cover of El Salvador. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of El Salvador's land cover

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Land cover of Serbia. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Rivers and lakes of the Netherlands. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the Netherlands' rivers and lakes

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Land cover of Thailand. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of Thailand's land cover

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Land cover of the conterminous United States of America. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the land cover of the United States of America

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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 22/05/2026

@tylermw.com's skymodelr package is so rad. So incredible what we can do with just a bit of #rstats code in 2026. Made myself a lovely new macOS Dynamic Wallpaper with skymodelr and the (also great) equinoxmac.com app.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Land cover of Guatemala. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of Guatemala's land cover

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Rivers of Australia. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Land cover of Romania. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Trying something different with a land cover map of Vietnam. What do you think? #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Thanks to feedback, here's rivers and subbasins of the Great Lakes, take two. I'd mistakenly excluded Canadian lakes in my earlier render. Also took the opportunity to add more rivers. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the rivers and subbasins of the Great Lakes

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Posit @posit.co · 19/05/2026

We’re excited to launch the Posit Open Source website! 🚀 We’ve unified 15+ years of tools, 900+ blogs, and 1,600+ videos in one place. Explore it here: opensource.posit.co Huge thanks to the team: @cwick.co.nz Greg Swinehart @hadley.nz @ivelasq3.bsky.social @jeroenjanssens.com

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Rivers of Michigan. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the rivers of Michigan

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thanks! In which state is the creek? I have individual renders of every state that borders the Great Lakes 😊

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Rivers and subbasins of the Great Lakes. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Today's land cover map is Bangladesh. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of Bangladesh's land cover

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Rivers of France. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

if anyone in R or Python ever thought "gee I'd like to contribute to GDAL", I'm here to help you get started can guide you through good approaches, what to think about, and what's bare minimum for a bug fix or feature PR, and the python and C++ tooling you will need (speaking linux)

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 14/05/2026

The Tufte LaTeX class is pretty, but it hasn't been updated for years and doesn't work with well with Quarto/lualatex. But with #QuartoPub you can replicate it on your own in HTML/PDF with just a little bit of customization with CSS and some preamble-y things! github.com/andrewheiss/...

Screenshot of a chapter start page in a PDF with an old map of the world with a marginal caption and a marginal note

Screenshot of a page in a PDF with an image and a marginal caption, but everything's on the other side of the page because it's a verso

Screenshot of an HTML start page with an old map of the world with a marginal caption and a marginal note

Screenshot of an HTML page with an image and a marginal caption

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I haven't tried subsetting; will give it a go, thanks!

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Yes, the Mississippi. The source is HydroSheds here; planning to move to NHDPlus next.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Rivers and lakes of Wisconsin. I see the broken linestrings...turns out it takes more effort than I anticipated to resolve. I can fix the entire river, but it breaks when I intersect. Would appreciate any suggestions. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the rivers and lakes of Wisconsin

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Land cover of India. This was edifying. I had no idea so much land was devoted to crops. I mean, I sorta knew but seeing it this way really hammered it home. This was also the render that drove me to pure GDAL for raster operations. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale