Blas M. Benito
@blasbenito.com
🌍 Spatial Data Scientist | Team Lead | 🌱 AgTech | PhD in Computational Ecology + MSc in GIS
#rstats developer | geospatial engineering | soil microbiome and crop health mapping | product development
https://github.com/BlasBenito - www.blasbenito.com
#rstats developer | geospatial engineering | soil microbiome and crop health mapping | product development
https://github.com/BlasBenito - www.blasbenito.com
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collinear: Automated Multicollinearity Management
Provides a comprehensive and automated workflow for managing multicollinearity in data frames with numeric and/or categorical variables. The package integrates five robust methods into a single functi...
blasbenito.github.io
{collinear} 3.0 is now on CRAN (yay! 🥳)
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
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Happy holidays to everyone who's in solitude today. You get to decide what this post-solstice 24 hours is like! You could mourn or reflect, give gratitude or binge-watch, join your chosen family or cozy up with your animals. You may not be surrounded by people, but a lot of us are in the same place.
December 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy holidays to everyone who's in solitude today. You get to decide what this post-solstice 24 hours is like! You could mourn or reflect, give gratitude or binge-watch, join your chosen family or cozy up with your animals. You may not be surrounded by people, but a lot of us are in the same place.
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With no disrespect to the good folks at posit.co, I'm super tired of authors using #rstats for their scientific analyses but only citing RStudio in their papers; I see this regularly as an editor.
Posit | The Open-Source Data Science Company
The best data science is open source. Posit is committed to creating incredible open-source tools for individuals, teams, and enterprises.
posit.co
December 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I am using it for an analysis! Thank you!
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I am using it for an analysis! Thank you!
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December 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The {spatialRF} R package is back from the dead 🧟
Version 1.1.5 🚑, now available on CRAN, patches issues introduced by recent API changes across several dependencies.
A development roadmap for the coming months is available here:: blasbenito.github.io/spatialRF/ar...
#rstats
Version 1.1.5 🚑, now available on CRAN, patches issues introduced by recent API changes across several dependencies.
A development roadmap for the coming months is available here:: blasbenito.github.io/spatialRF/ar...
#rstats
Development Roadmap
blasbenito.github.io
December 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The {spatialRF} R package is back from the dead 🧟
Version 1.1.5 🚑, now available on CRAN, patches issues introduced by recent API changes across several dependencies.
A development roadmap for the coming months is available here:: blasbenito.github.io/spatialRF/ar...
#rstats
Version 1.1.5 🚑, now available on CRAN, patches issues introduced by recent API changes across several dependencies.
A development roadmap for the coming months is available here:: blasbenito.github.io/spatialRF/ar...
#rstats
Today I got a job rejection, but Uwe Ligges accepted my #rstats package submission without minding a check NOTE.
Life balances itself in weird ways.
Life balances itself in weird ways.
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Today I got a job rejection, but Uwe Ligges accepted my #rstats package submission without minding a check NOTE.
Life balances itself in weird ways.
Life balances itself in weird ways.
I am configuring Claude Code to help with the boring and time-consuming parts of coding #rstats packages.
Currently I have two subagents under testing:
- Roxy: reviews and edits roxygen docs. Knows how to hit the rate limit.
- CRANcop: ensures CRAN compliance (or so it hopes).
Currently I have two subagents under testing:
- Roxy: reviews and edits roxygen docs. Knows how to hit the rate limit.
- CRANcop: ensures CRAN compliance (or so it hopes).
December 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I am configuring Claude Code to help with the boring and time-consuming parts of coding #rstats packages.
Currently I have two subagents under testing:
- Roxy: reviews and edits roxygen docs. Knows how to hit the rate limit.
- CRANcop: ensures CRAN compliance (or so it hopes).
Currently I have two subagents under testing:
- Roxy: reviews and edits roxygen docs. Knows how to hit the rate limit.
- CRANcop: ensures CRAN compliance (or so it hopes).
Reposted by Blas M. Benito
Folks be sure take the #GDAL user survey for 2025, last year's brought a lot of improvements
github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...
#rstats #python
github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...
#rstats #python
December 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Folks be sure take the #GDAL user survey for 2025, last year's brought a lot of improvements
github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...
#rstats #python
github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...
#rstats #python
I just watched an episode of Yellowjackets, and this scene with Shauna spilling it all while his husband spirals down was an absolutely hilarious trainwreck 😂
The guy really sells it here. I still chuckle when I remember it!
The guy really sells it here. I still chuckle when I remember it!
a man says " what theres no book club "
ALT: a man says " what theres no book club "
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I just watched an episode of Yellowjackets, and this scene with Shauna spilling it all while his husband spirals down was an absolutely hilarious trainwreck 😂
The guy really sells it here. I still chuckle when I remember it!
The guy really sells it here. I still chuckle when I remember it!
Reposted by Blas M. Benito
heck yeah I know! github.com/mdsumner/est... been working on this a while and it's both an expanding cycle of virtue with years of work, and a near production ready science tool already ;)
GitHub - mdsumner/estinel
Contribute to mdsumner/estinel development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
heck yeah I know! github.com/mdsumner/est... been working on this a while and it's both an expanding cycle of virtue with years of work, and a near production ready science tool already ;)
Had a great meeting today with the CTO and co-founder of a very exciting geospatial tech start-up.
The level of honesty about their engineering processes and culture was refreshing. That is rare and I loved it!
Let's see where this goes.
The level of honesty about their engineering processes and culture was refreshing. That is rare and I loved it!
Let's see where this goes.
December 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Had a great meeting today with the CTO and co-founder of a very exciting geospatial tech start-up.
The level of honesty about their engineering processes and culture was refreshing. That is rare and I loved it!
Let's see where this goes.
The level of honesty about their engineering processes and culture was refreshing. That is rare and I loved it!
Let's see where this goes.
Reposted by Blas M. Benito
Soil Health Data Cube (#SHDC) has just been updated (v1.1)! Dynamic soil properties and soil health indicators at 30m res 2000-2024 pan-EU. Access data here: stac.ecodatacube.eu and explore via ecodatacube.eu (webinar: youtu.be/eMmhepWg6Cs?...). shdc.ai4soilhealth.eu @ai4soilhealth.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Soil Health Data Cube (#SHDC) has just been updated (v1.1)! Dynamic soil properties and soil health indicators at 30m res 2000-2024 pan-EU. Access data here: stac.ecodatacube.eu and explore via ecodatacube.eu (webinar: youtu.be/eMmhepWg6Cs?...). shdc.ai4soilhealth.eu @ai4soilhealth.bsky.social
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🎯 I’m always curious how people first got into R. Was it through plotting? Analysing data? A specific package?
What was the first thing that made you say, "How cool would it be if I knew some R?"
For that, I created a quick poll: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
What was the first thing that made you say, "How cool would it be if I knew some R?"
For that, I created a quick poll: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
December 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🎯 I’m always curious how people first got into R. Was it through plotting? Analysing data? A specific package?
What was the first thing that made you say, "How cool would it be if I knew some R?"
For that, I created a quick poll: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
What was the first thing that made you say, "How cool would it be if I knew some R?"
For that, I created a quick poll: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
zsh + powerlevel10k + kitty = 🤔😳🤯🥰
December 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
zsh + powerlevel10k + kitty = 🤔😳🤯🥰
I am totally unshocked
How it started vs How it’s going (vibe coding edition)
December 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I am totally unshocked
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#gllvm is constantly evolving and expanding, so Pekka Korhonen wrote a paper demonstrating new features in the package since Niku et al. 2019.
peerj.com/articles/203...
We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃
peerj.com/articles/203...
We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃
gllvm 2.0: fast fitting of advanced ordination methods and joint species distribution models
Background Over the past decade, joint species distribution models (JSDMs) and model-based ordination have emerged as powerful tools for the analysis of community ecology data. Generalized linear late...
peerj.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#gllvm is constantly evolving and expanding, so Pekka Korhonen wrote a paper demonstrating new features in the package since Niku et al. 2019.
peerj.com/articles/203...
We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃
peerj.com/articles/203...
We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃
The job market feels like Tinder circa 2015, full of "oh, you looked taller on your résumé"
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The job market feels like Tinder circa 2015, full of "oh, you looked taller on your résumé"
Futurama is SAVAGE.
One second you find out Bender has a cute firstborn, and a second before you can even assimilate it he's dumping the little dude in the fires of robohell.
One second you find out Bender has a cute firstborn, and a second before you can even assimilate it he's dumping the little dude in the fires of robohell.
bender from futurama is holding a purple camera in front of a picture of a baseball player
Alt: bender from futurama is holding a purple camera in front of a picture of a baseball player
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Futurama is SAVAGE.
One second you find out Bender has a cute firstborn, and a second before you can even assimilate it he's dumping the little dude in the fires of robohell.
One second you find out Bender has a cute firstborn, and a second before you can even assimilate it he's dumping the little dude in the fires of robohell.
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Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
Another one bites the dust.
The agrometeorological dataset AgERA5 (URL: cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/sis...) goes off technical support.
The agrometeorological dataset AgERA5 (URL: cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/sis...) goes off technical support.
December 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Another one bites the dust.
The agrometeorological dataset AgERA5 (URL: cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/sis...) goes off technical support.
The agrometeorological dataset AgERA5 (URL: cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/sis...) goes off technical support.
Reposted by Blas M. Benito
{collinear} 3.0 is now on CRAN (yay! 🥳)
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
collinear: Automated Multicollinearity Management
Provides a comprehensive and automated workflow for managing multicollinearity in data frames with numeric and/or categorical variables. The package integrates five robust methods into a single functi...
blasbenito.github.io
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
{collinear} 3.0 is now on CRAN (yay! 🥳)
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
With {collinear} ready, I went back to check on {spatialRF}, and...
a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . ''
Alt: Gandalf saying `` i have no memory of this place . ''
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
With {collinear} ready, I went back to check on {spatialRF}, and...
{collinear} 3.0 is now on CRAN (yay! 🥳)
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
collinear: Automated Multicollinearity Management
Provides a comprehensive and automated workflow for managing multicollinearity in data frames with numeric and/or categorical variables. The package integrates five robust methods into a single functi...
blasbenito.github.io
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
{collinear} 3.0 is now on CRAN (yay! 🥳)
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.
You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5
Not so different from what I see in the mirror a morning after a bad night.
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Not so different from what I see in the mirror a morning after a bad night.