Simplification Algorithms in R

Geometry Simplification is a very helpful way to optimize the storage, processing, and visualization of your geographic data.

The importance of labelled data in Machine Learning

Most people don’t realize the massive effort behind training a machine learning algorithm. In this post, I talk about why you should be extra careful when labeling your data.

Gathering news articles using the Newsdata API.

In this blog post I go through a step-by-step on how to use the python client from the Newsdata API to gather news data.

Character encodings and why you need to know about them

Working with text data can be fun, but also tricky. Always be careful of which encoding system you are using, specially if you are dealing with characters or graphemes unknown to the English alphabet.

Exploding geometries with GeoPandas

Some geographical data sources include Taiwan as part of China. In this post, I show you how to split these territories without having to use other data source.