If anyone has a dataset they’d be willing to share (or knows of one that fits the bill), I’d be incredibly grateful.

As a thank-you, I’ll send a free copy of the book once it’s published.

Appealing data: Something interesting or relatable, like elephants or penguins. Ideally not rats or worms—they don’t tend to grab attention quite the same way.

100+ spatial locations: Nicely distributed—no overly clumped data, please.
A couple of covariates: Enough to allow for meaningful modeling but not overly complex.

Advice: Pay for the lounge in Stavanger and in ABZ…otherwise you get mad from the noise

Sunny in the afternoon…you are lucky

That is brave. A little bit of snow here means that the whole country comes to an halt. The 09.00 ABZ-AMS flight is cancelled.

There would be a lot of interest!