I like to conduct research with the goal of improving conservation and land management. Interests include ecosystem change, processes, and structure at broad scales. I am employed as an assistant professor of rangeland ecology at the University of Montana. College of Forestry and Conservation. Missoula, MT 59812 USA.

Technology, business, economics, travelling, and other adventures. Which is an awesome way to create maps without the pain of setting up a server or downloading Open Street Map data. The way Mapbox Studio works is that Mapbox has pre-rendered vector tiles from Open Street Map at all 22 standard zoom levels. Mapbox has also pre-rendered hill shading tiles and contour lines! You can get the CartoCSS for the hiking map here.

A Physicist in a World of Data. What is wrong with you people? April 21, 2015. Analytics in a locked world. As a data scientist, I have to deal with data from several different sources. This begs for a wide range of tools and great flexibility of using these tools, otherwise manipulating the data can be almost impossible. And then your employer says that you can only use Windows, without admin rights, and you can only install software from a very restrict pre-approved list. What do you do? It can be tric.

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First days as a Data Scientist at Vizzuality. Update after my first few weeks since joining Vizzuality as a Data Scientist. Posted Thu 26 January 2017. Posted Mon 02 January 2017. How can I begin to improve my workflow? How to begin on the path to an Open Science workflow.

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Why Do I Use a Static Site Generator? The bar was raised for the web developers to differentiate their nifty three-tier architecture from the GeoCities static pages of the hoi polloi. But then, building dynamic sites became easier for more people with new browsers, open source database management systems and web application frameworks, free embeddable services, and social network integration. I wanted to start quickly.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018. The Decorator Pattern versus the Python wrapt package. Brandon Rhodes published a post today about the Decorator Pattern. And how that translates into Python. He explains the manual way that the pattern can be implemented in Python as a wrapper, as well as how you can try to minimise the amount of work you need to do by overriding special methods of a Python object.

A biased view of the whole Mac vs PC discussion. Posted on 03 Nov 2017. The Mac vs PC debate is practically as old as the youngest of the two platform. My first machine was an IBM x286. I was 6 years old and our neighbor was working for IBM and he thought my brother and I would be interested in playing with a computer. 1, 95, 98, and Windows XP.