James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist
@northernmaps.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 I am a GIS Specialist, working from Happy Valley-Goose Bay. I love maps, cartography and cool data visualisations. Currently finishing a PhD with MUNL on the historic landscape of the Exploits River Valley.
Pretty sure this is a local graffiti artist's tag, but it *is* kind of calling out for an #rstats package.
Today is Duodi the 22nd of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate cumin. #JacobinDay See today's page
Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.
Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.
Today is Nonidi the 29th of Floréal in the year 234. Floréal is the month of flowers. Today we celebrate white mustard. #JacobinDay More information on white mustard
Land cover of Sri Lanka. The last time I did anything related to land cover was *checks history* almost three years ago. And I remember why: I spend way too much time on colours, just to end back up with the original palette. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
I didnt know there were such dreams to live as a child!
Density of point-of-view sections by word count in the Wheel of Time Another chart I did as part of my failed 30 days of charts. But I got a bit of a kick out of putting this on the economist theme. #wheeloftime #wot #robertjordan #thewheelweaves #fantasy #30DayChartChallenge
Trying again: Instead of noting down #Qgis tricks and tips privately I'm going to do it here so maybe it can help other people too. First up: Prettier contours. 1/11 #GIS #cartography
Radiocarbon Dates for Newfoundland Recent Indigenous Period archaeological sites. I wanted to see how many dates had been taken at each site, and how wide their errors were. #historic #error #radiocarbon #Newfoundland #archaeology #30DayChartChallenge
Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.
I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.
#30DayChartChallenge #Day13 – Ecosystems. Well, a digital ecosystem. Radial plots of the relative abundance of monsters in the Stardew Valley mines per zone. Each zone has its unique "ecosystem" composed of different organisms that appear at different rates. #DataViz #Rstats
Day of the peak cherry blossom in Kyoto from 812-2025 I really just wanted to try making a pretty circular plot, so I'll take another shot at this sometime. #circularplot #kyoto #cherryblossom #30DayChartChallenge
A Tanaka-style map of the Torngat Mountains National Park. I wanted to try out a few things with relief and toponym placement. #Torngats #Labrador #Nunatsiavut #NorthernCanada #Tanaka #Contours
#30DayChartChallenge Linkin Park, track by track: a song-level heatmap of rage, pain, identity, hope, loss, and strength across the full discography. Built from lyric-based theme counts to map the band’s emotional vocabulary in detail. Tools: Python, Matplotlib, Scipy & NLTK #DataViz
Tide chart for Lake Melville, Labrador, locations This shows how the tides are different depending on the location, and how these are different in different areas. #tidechart #LakeMelville #Labrador #30DayChartChallenge
I won't make it through the whole of the 30 days of charts, but I was able to do some, and I'll probably do a few more. Here's a graphic of the NI historic monuments (omitting aerial photographs). #archaeology #NorthernIreland #heroni #treemap #30DayChartChallenge
This U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics road map is really good! #cartography #dataviz www.bts.gov/geography/ge...
Are you ready for the next #30DayChartChallenge? 🚀 Only 2 weeks left until the 6th edition starts — it’s time to reveal this year's topics 🎉 1 prompt for each day of April across 5 categories to spark inspiration, experimentation, and learning 📊 Who’s in? 👀 #dataviz #datavisualization
Here's my day one of the 2026 30 days of charts challenge! I wanted to look at the toponyms for Labrador by type, to see what was most commonly named at each scale. I'm a little late to start, so I'll try to catch up. #Labrador #Toponyms #Place-Names #30daychartchallenge
QGIS 4 is coming out soon, and I'm super excited! Also, this is really helpful: hub.qgis.org
QGIS Resources Hub
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🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉 🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026 📣 Call for submissions is open 👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members conference.rainbowr.org
– rainbowR conference
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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