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Colour by numbers — There is a bit of art and a bit of science involved in making data visualizations — but it’s mostly science. For instance, this thread is an absolute showcase of pure helpfulness and enthusiasm about colouring a 2D array of numbers. Not always as easy as it sounds…
Scraping open the earth — A post about Pangaea, a data publishing service dealing with a variety of datasets in the earth and atmospheric sciences. Oh, and wanna loop through thousands of geospatial datasets in the inventory, Wesley’s got you covered.
Coordinate system correctness — Need to fix an erroneous coordinate reference system (CRS) in a shapefile? GeoPandas has got what you need.
Confused about type hints in Python? You’re not alone. There was a massive conversation about it this week on Swung. Conclusion: Yes.
Open all the wells — How many signatures will it take to open an entire country’s well data? No idea, but we might get to find out. A post was shared about a petition to the Dutch government to open all the well logs in the Netherlands. The petition, originating with one of the dGB founders, is still open.
Five star open data — Still on open data, is the post pointing to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Five Star Open Data plan. Some other frameworks, models, and concepts were discussed in this thread. What should Swung be doing to adopt, modify, or accelerate these initiatives?
What caught your eye on Software Underground this week? Let us know in the comments.