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Dear All, as you may have heard, in efforts to control the spread of the Corona Virus, the Austrian government has prohibited indoor events of more than 100 people, and is discouraging unnecessary social gatherings. In order to protect our community, the VDSG has decided to follow the spirit of the law, and suspend its activities until the government ban is lifted.…
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Effortless and great looking visualizations can be achieved using https://kepler.gl/. However, kepler by itself is tedious to use as updating the data files like you might have done with QGIS or ArcGIS does not work on the website.…
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Discrete global grid systems recently got quite some attention in the GIS community when Uber released H3 https://eng.uber.com/h3/.…
Read moreOn October 21 the Data4Good program lead by VDSG held it’s third DS Salon. The agenda and additional details can be found on our meetup page of the event. The videos are now on our youtube channel.
Jelena’s and Marcin’s talks are now on our youtube channel.
Slides are available here.
You can find slides for this talk here.…
Read moreBy Georg Heiler
Have you ever wondered where the cryptic names of cached dataframes and RDD in Spark’s web UI belong to? Usually no specific name is set. When you apply a df.cache spark will auto generate the name as a snippet from the query plan.…
By Georg Heiler
More and more people start to work with large quantities of geospatial data and think about using spark and one of its geospatial additions like geomesa, geospark or geotrellis. And soon they come to realize that one of the tools does not provide a function which would be commonly required.…
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