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I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for an Arrow Schema
R
Apache Arrow
python
Always take the time to write a schema. Sometimes you have to. It is isn’t optional. But in less strongly typed languages like R and python, you can sometimes get away with…
Oct 2, 2024
Sam Albers
Talking (Hockey) Age with ObservableJS
R
JavaScript
ObservableJS
nhl
api
Lately I’ve been thinking about two things: getting old and ObservableJS. Getting old is self-explanatory. ObservableJS (ojs) is maybe less so. Normally ojs is used in a Java…
Oct 1, 2024
Sam Albers
The return of the web service
R
hydrology
tidyhydat
The most common question I get about the tidyhydat package goes something like this:
May 4, 2023
Sam Albers
A short history of me at rstudio::conf 2020
R
RStudio
In January, I was lucky enough to attend the 2020 edition of RStudio::conf. Perhaps predictably, the conference and workshops were exceptional and to see all the wonderful…
Feb 11, 2020
Sam Albers
One small step for a package, one giant leap for a task view
hydrology
task-view
R
This is a bit of a grandiose title for a blog post. But it is important to have ambition right? In 2003, after releasing Michigan, Sufjan Stevens announced his intention to…
Jan 19, 2020
Sam Albers
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