Sam Albers
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Sam Albers
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Data Science at Hakai Institute. Ex: Anaconda, Voltron Data and bcgov. Interested in all things data. And hockey. And open source hydrology. And plots. Did I mention plots?
Features or data?
August 19, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Yikes! Especially after it was a grant funded excavation.
March 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
“The Melsonby hoard has been valued at £254,000 and a fundraising campaign to secure it for the nation will be launched by the Yorkshire Museum in York.”

What does that mean? ^
March 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Indoor air?
March 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Our local grocer told me that they couldn’t get rid of the American produce. People just weren’t buying it.
March 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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March 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Why would one do this rather than use the cranlogs package?
February 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Right. I think maybe I don’t quite understand the scope then. It is not intended to be a drop in replacement for arrow’s parquet reader?
February 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Last time I used this, it struggled with deeply nested data structure - think a json blob jammed into a parquet file. This would be a nice feature.
February 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Oh interesting! The “hardcore history” series on Genghis Khan is also a very good listen on this topic.
December 5, 2024 at 3:14 PM
The world needs to know.
November 29, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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Some of the names that I considered for the tidyverse were sleekverse, deftverse, and dapperverse!!
November 27, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Hmmm. I’m sorry that you took that away from my comment. In no way was I trying to minimize the effect of the tidyverse api. It’s been transformative.
November 21, 2024 at 3:10 AM
I think it isn’t quite right to describe ibis as a tidyverse port. Certainly it draws from the tidyverse but I think the real interesting thing that it tries to do is establish a consistent syntax across many different backends. Fills a different niche.
November 20, 2024 at 4:47 AM