Date last run: 04Feb2021

Introduction

Collection of links. Work still in progress ….

Maps and Carthography

Maps

Netherlands (in Dutch)

• http://topotijdreis.nl
  Maps for the Netherlands from 1815 onwards (Topografische Dienst/Kadaster)
• https://cartografie-nederland.startpagina.nl/
  ‘start pagina’ page for Dutch maps
• luchtfoto 2018
  Latest arial photograph of the Netherlands
• PDOK viewer
  Viewer for (some) PDOK maps
  
• Publieke Dienstverlening Op de Kaart
  Platform for digital geographical information from the Dutch local and central government.
• Imergis rasterkaarten
• Geographical open-data GIS files
  Also by Imergis
• Archeologie op de kaart
  Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden. Op de website ‘Archeologie op de Kaart’ kun je kennismaken met de archeologie van heel Nederland. Je vindt er ook voorwerpen uit onze collectie.
• Kaarten collectie van de bibliotheek van deUniversiteit van Amsterdam
• History of Cartography
  On this site the University of Chicago Press is pleased to present the first three volumes of the History of Cartography in PDF format.

Zeeland

• https://intgwbp.zeeland.nl/geoloket/?Viewer=Cultuurhistorie
  Maps of province Zeeland
• 53 kaarten
  Maps of province Zeeland from ‘Ryhiner collection, memory of the world’
• kaart Zeeuws Archief
  Samengestelde kaart van situatie rond 1274 gemaakt rond 1650
• Kaartcollecties Zeeuws Archief
  Ovezicht door Leo Hollestelle

Amsterdam

• Amsterdam City Tiles
  The Amsterdam Time Machine offers tiles of six important (historical) Amsterdam maps.
• Amsterdam City Data
  Data portal for the municipality of Amsterdam
• Referentiedata voor Amsterdamse collecties
  Links to Amsterdam data (Dutch texts). E.g. Adamlink Lab links to applications using this data.

Organisations

OGC

• Open Geospatial Consortium
  The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international not for profit organization committed to making quality open standards for the global geospatial community. With blog section

North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)

• NACIS home
  Home page
• NACIS YouTube feed
  YouTube feed with videos of yearly conferences
• NACIS 2019 YouTube feed
  YouTube feed with videos of 2019 conference

Old maps (general)

• https://www.heemkunde-vlaanderen.be/images/bladwijzer04_vandeventer.pdf
  PDF over Van Deventer door Vannieuwenhuyze

  Congresses

International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC2019)

• International Cartographic Association
  The mission of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is to promote the disciplines and professions of cartography and GIScience in an international context
• ICA commission on the History of Cartography
  Links on website of the International Cartographic Association commission on the History of Cartography
• Explokart Historische Cartografie
  Explokart is dedicated to making an inventory, description, and facsimiles of Dutch wall maps, topographical maps, sea charts, hydrographical maps, and globes. The aim of Explokart is to offer guidance to the users of old maps. This is accomplished by informing the users about the specific characteristics of cartographic materials, as well as the problems involved in their interpretation. Explokart classifies these documents and makes them accessible to members of the discipline and to the general public.
• Caert-Thresoor
  Caert-Thresoor Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis van de Kartografie

Courses

• Cursus Historische Cartografie
  

31 oktober – 12 december

Toen er nog geen luchtfoto’s werden gemaakt en de GPS nog niet was uitgevonden, was men toch in staat een geslaagd beeld van de omgeving en zelfs van de wereld te maken. Hoe? Dat kom je te weten in de cursus Historische Cartografie in Vogelvlucht bij het Allard Pierson. De cursus wordt gegeven door conservator cartografie, geografie en reizen Reinder Storm, bijzonder hoogleraar Historische Cartografie Bram Vannieuwenhuyze en Jansonius-conservator en hoofd van onderzoeksprogramma Explokart Peter van der Krogt. Beknopte biografie.

Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Statistics Netherlands)

• CBS opendata snelstartgids
  De OData API van het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek ontsluit de StatLine-datasets van het CBS in verschillende formaten die eenvoudig ingelezen kunnen worden in computerprogramma’s. In deze snelstartgids wordt uitgelegd hoe de Wijken- en Buurtinfo uit 2017 (tabel 83765NED) ingeladen kan worden. Deze handleiding is bedoeld voor gebruikers van R of Python. Als voorkennis wordt verondersteld dat de gebruiker packages kan installeren en kan werken met functies en variabelen.
  
• CBS opendata cartografie
  Veel datasets bevatten regionale cijfers. In deze handleiding wordt aan de hand van een voorbeeld over geboortecijfers uitgelegd hoe CBS-data gekoppeld kan worden aan geografische gegevens om een thematische kaart te maken met R of Python. De informatie uit de Snelstartgids wordt bekend verondersteld.
  
• CBS opendata tijdreeksen
  Wanneer dezelfde variabele op verschillende momenten gemeten wordt ontstaat een tijdreeks. De meeste cijfers van het CBS worden elke maand, elk kwartaal of elk jaar geactualiseerd. In deze handleiding wordt aan de hand van cijfers over toeristenbelasting uitgelegd hoe een tijdreeks verwerkt en gevisualiseerd kan worden. De informatie uit de Snelstartgids wordt bekend verondersteld.
  
• Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek GitHub
  Repositories CBS-Open-Data-v3 and CBS-Open-Data-v4

Spatial software

General programming with R

• Geocomputation with R
  Overview spatial programming with R.Authors Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, Jannes Muenchow
  
• Spatial Data Science
  by Edzer Pebesma and Roger Bivand. The version seen was dated 2019-01-15 and the latest source code can be found on GitHub
• r-spatial
  r-spatial.org is a website and blog for those interested in using R to analyse spatial or spatio-temporal data.
  Contributors: Edzer Pebesma, Marius Appel and Daniel Nüst.
• New Resource for Learning Choroplethr
  By Ari Lamstein who is the author of choroplethr, a suite of open source R packages for mapping demographic statistics.
• Learn Spatial Analysis - Online resources, tutorials, and more
  The Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago is currently in the process of developing this site to share tutorials and resources for spatial analysis in R. This is an initiative started by Luc Anselin and currently led by Angela Li, R Spatial Advocate for the center.
• R for Geospatial Processing
  By Nicolas Roelandt. This workshop is designed for the attendance of FOSS4G 2019.
• The landscape of spatial data analysis in R
  Presentation by Jakub Nowosad on 28 September 2019 in the ‘Why R? 2019’ conference in Warsaw. Nice graphs and references.

R packages

• An Exploration of Simple Features for R
  Introduction by Jesse Sadler

D3

• D3 in Depth Geographic
  D3 mapping concepts

Data Science

Data Science as a profession

• Data science is different now
  An article by Vicki Boykis with some thoughts about data science in the past, present and future.

Data Science books

• Bookdown home page
  List of featured books produced with the Bookdown package.
  Also see the archive. Some of the book links will be listed separately.
• R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
  By Yihui Xie, J. J. Allaire and Garrett Grolemund

Infra structure

Git

• Setup GitLab environment
• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR
  Happy Git by Jenny Bryan, the STAT 545 TAs and Jim Hester provides opinionated instructions on how to: Install Git and get it working smoothly with GitHub, in the shell and in the RStudio IDE. Develop a few key workflows that cover your most common tasks. Integrate Git and GitHub into your daily work with R and R Markdown.
• Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about version control?
  By Jenny Brian : *This article describes the use of the version control system Git and and the hosting site GitHub for statistical and data scientific workflows. *

Magick

• Add a logo with Magick
  With information about the position of the logo
• Using the Tesseract OCR engine in R
  Tesseract can be activated via Magick
• Magick entries in the blog by Mitchell O’Hara-Wild
  By Mitchell O’Hara-Wild
• Easter eggs with Magick
  By Jurriaan Nagelkerke

Screen recording

• ScreenToGif
  ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, live feed from your webcam or live drawings from a sketchboard. Afterwards, you can edit and save the animation as a gif or video. Free and open source application for Window, without any ads!

Historical versions of websites

• The Internet Archive
  The Internet Archive, a 501©(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
• Archive a website
  Create a copy of a current website in a cloud archive and optionally in zip-file. However it seems that only the page of the main url is saved.

Encodings

• Encoding in R
  By Irene Steves: We live in the age of vacuum bots and 3D-printing, so what makes multi-language support so complicated? I have no solutions in this blogpost. I’ve simply amassed my encoding knowledge (mostly from GitHub issues and from explanations/demos at the Tidyverse Developer Day) into a single blogpost.
• Encoding Case Study
  By Jenny Brian: Unravelling a CSV file with a mixed encoding

ExpressVPN

• How to download and update the ExpressVPN app

DevOps eBooks

• A curated collection of free DevOps related eBooks

General programming with R

Advanced R

• Advanced R
  The second version (work in progress) of the famous book by Hadley Wickham. First version can be found here.

R Packages

• R Packages
  The second version (work in progress) by Hadley Wickham and Jenny Brian. First version can be found here.
• R package development workshop
  By COMBINE, an association for Australian students in bioinformatics, computational biology and related fields
• Writing R extensions
  By R Core Team and converted to bookdown by Colin Fay

Using additional languages

• The Need for Speed Part 1
  Building an R Package with Fortran (or C) by Avraham Adler

Purrr

• Introduction in Purrr
  Introduction by Emily Robinson
• purrr 0.3.0
  By Lionel Henry. We’re excited to announce the release of purrr 0.3.0! purrr enhances R’s functional programming toolkit by providing a complete and consistent set of tools for working with functions and vectors.

Graphics

• R Graphics Cookbook
  By Winston Chang. Handles mostly ggplot2 and not the base R functionality (but see introduction of appendix A).

Simulation

• Food Income and the Evolution of Forager Mobility
  Included here because this paper apparently illustrates the use of Agent-based models. GitHub repository contains code and (references to) data.
• Modelling and Simulation in Archaeology
  Online course by Fulco Scherjon (Leiden University), Iza Romanowska (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) and Karsten Lambers (Leiden University). Gives you a hands-on introduction to modeling and simulation in archaeology based on theoretical lessons and practical exercises, with a focus on Agent-based Modelling (ABM).
• SPOC Modelling and Simulation in Archaeology
  This online course will provide an in-depth treatment of modelling and simulation in archaeology. It will contain both theoretical lessons and practical exercises with a focus on Agent-based Modelling (ABM), and will enable you to solve a self-defined research question in this sub-field. Same course/contents as the one above (?) but only for students of Leiden University (?)
• Individual-based modelling using NetLogo
  This five-day workshop will introduce the principles of agent-based modelling using NetLogo*, a development environment and a domain specific computer language for agent-based modelling. Instruction will be led by Professors Steve Railsback and Volker Grimm, leading experts, educators and authors of agent-based modelling theory and practice.
• NetLogo
  NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by many tens of thousands of students, teachers and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL.
• NetLogoR
  Build and run spatially explicit agent-based models using only the R platform. ‘NetLogoR’ follows the same framework as the ‘NetLogo’ software Wilensky, 1999 and is a translation in R of the structure and functions of ‘NetLogo’. Vignettes ‘NetLogoR’ Dictionary and Programming Guide ‘NetLogoR’
• SpaDes
  SpaDES: Develop and Run Spatially Explicit Discrete Event Simulation Models in R. Metapackage for implementing a variety of event-based models, with a focus on spatially explicit models. These include raster-based, event-based, and agent-based models.
  

Publication with R

RMarkdown and friends

• R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
  By Yihui Xie, J. J. Allaire and Garrett Grolemund
• RMarkdown Driven Development: the Technical Appendix
  By Emily Riederer

Advanced R Markdown Workshop rstudio::conf 2019 Austin, TX.

• Advanced RMarkdown Workshop day1
  Advanced R Markdown Workshop day1 by Yihui Xie, Alison Hill and Jiena Gu rstudio::conf 2019 Austin, TX. Subjects xaringan with slides, flexdashboard with slides, learnr with slides, bookdown with slides, blogdown with slides and officer with slides
• Advanced RMarkdown Workshop day2
  Advanced R Markdown Workshop day2 by Yihui Xie and Hao Zhu rstudio::conf 2019 Austin, TX with slides about the subjects R Markdown via command line, Understanding Pandoc’s Markdown, Lesser-known features of knitr, R Markdown output formats, Extending R Markdown (Hao Zhu), HTML widgets and Shiny and More advanced stuff

pagedown

• Alternative to Latex for High Quality Reports with RMarkdown
  Slides for uRos2018 (Use of R in Official Statistics 2018 - 6th international conference) by Romain Lesur
• Creating Beautiful PDFs with R Markdown + CSS
  Creating Beautiful PDFs with R Markdown + CSS + Your Web Browser
  by Yihui Xie and Romain Lesur 2019/01/18 @ rstudio::conf, Austin, TX
• GitHub Pagedown repo
  Examples
• pagedown: Create Paged HTML Documents for Printing from R Markdown
  A Less Traveled Road to PDF and Printing by Yihui Xie and Romain Lesur 2019-01-17
• CSS Paged Media Module Level 3
  W3C Working Draft, 18 October 2018: This CSS module specifies how pages are generated and laid out to hold fragmented content in a paged presentation.

Hugo websites

blogdown

• blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown
  By Yihui Xie, Amber Thomas, Alison Presmanes Hill
• Creating Websites with R Markdown and blogdown
  By Yihui Xie 2018/02/02 @ rstudio::conf 2018, San Diego
• Miscellaneous Wisdom about R Markdown & Hugo Gained from Work on our Website
  By Maëlle Salmon
• Up & running with blogdown in 2021 | Alison Hill

User experiences with Hugo

• A not-so-technical introduction to Daijiang’s personal website
  Introduction
• Making a Website Using Blogdown, Hugo, and GitHub pages
  By Amber Thomas.

HTML

• special characters

Archaeology and Computing

• Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (JCAA)
  The Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (JCAA) was established in 2017 by Computer Applications in Archaeology International (CAA) to provide an attractive outlet for publication of cutting-edge research in the broad field of digital archaeology and cultural heritage. The journal aims to publish top-level peer-reviewed academic papers based on presentations during the annual CAA conferences, but they can also be submitted independently.
• CAA 2019 program (Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology)
  Here you will find the last version (23.04.2019) of the CAA 2019 program. The program includes a complete list of all sessions and presentations plus all the necessary information about accompanying events. Printed version will be provided at the conference for all the attendees.

Conferences

rstudio::conf 2020

• RStudio resources
• Links to slides from rstudio::conf 2020

useR2019

• useR! 2019 Toulouse - France
  Schedule with links to slides
• useR2019 materials
  This file contains links to materials from all tutorials, some talks and a few posters from useR 2019. For talks, the official site now has links to most slides and soon also links to videos, so you’d probably want to look there first :)

rstudio::conf 2019

• RStudio resources
  Official RStudio site with videos etc of 2019 conference
• Links to slides from rstudio::conf 2019
  Workshops material, posters etc
• R Studio Conf 2019 - Easing your FOMO with R Resources
  By Little Miss Data

rstudio::conf 2018

• RStudio resources
  Official RStudio site with talks of 2018 conference

Web sémantique et Web de données

• FUN MOOC Course Inria Web sémantique et Web de données
  Course mentioning the following ‘resources’
  • W3C Data Activity: Building the Web of Data
  • Semantic Web Standards
  • Semantic Web Development Tools
  • An introduction to Semantic Web and Linked Data
  • Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron-Zucker, Olivier Corby. Le web sémantique : Comment lier les données et les schémas sur le web ? Collection: InfoPro, Paris : Dunod, 2012. ISBN 978-2-10-058141-2
  • RDF Primer
  • OWL Primer
  • Le site DBpedia
  • Le site de l’équipe Wimmics

Twitter

• Twitter for R programmers
  ‘So, you’re an R-programmer. What can you gain from becoming active on Twitter? This book will talk about the benefits and it will show you how to use Twitter.’ By Oscar Baruffa and Veerle van Son.
  This ebook is not about mining tweets. For that see 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter Data with rtweet.

Notebooks

• Maintaining a laboratory notebook
  Tips for undergraduates, but perhaps useful for anyone.

To Be Read

• How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team works with graphics in R
  Explain how and why we have used R’s ggplot2 package to create production-ready charts, document our process and code and share what we learned along the way
• [R] GIS like it’s 2019: Pragmatic Workflows for Vector and Raster Data, Pt. 1
  By Ilja. So I started to write down my own #Rstats+ workflows for particular #GIS/mapping use cases. Here’s part 1, focusing on BBOX and vector data, with various 1-liners for {sf, mapview, mapedit, osmdata, rnaturalearth}.
• I can rayshade, and so can you
  A beginner’s tour of making custom maps with rayshader in R.
• Making thematic maps with R
  By Maarten Hermans. This online walkthrough accompanies a 3h “show-and-tell” workshop on making thematic (choropleth) maps in R.
• Choropleth maps with R - the Belgian edition
  By Wouter Van Dooren
• NICAR 2019
  By Andrew Ba Tran: Here’s a look at the maps we’ll be making in my “Mapping with R” #NICAR19 session.
• PDOK uitgebreid met meer data van Waterschappen
  Sinds 2016 staan de eerste dataverzamelingen van de waterschappen live op PDOK. Vanaf 25 maart 2019 is de verzameling uitgebreid met data over waterkeringen. Er is al data beschikbaar over kunstwerken, oppervlaktewateren en waterbeheergebieden.
• Oat the Goat
  See here for background
• Functional programming concepts
  The latest in a series of blog articles about functional programming concepts by Ernest Omane-Kodie
• Summary I: Malofiej 27 infographics summit (Pamplona)
  A summary of the Malofiej #27 (March 2019) conference and awards (first day) by Sandra Rendgen
• Summary II: Malofiej 27 infographics summit (Pamplona)
  A summary of the Malofiej #27 (March 2019) conference and awards (second day) by Sandra Rendgen
• Debugging an R Package with C++
  By Davis Vaughan. This post is dedicated to teaching you how to debug an R package that has C++ code in it.
• Zooming in on maps with sf and ggplot2
  By Markus Konrad
• Headless Chrome Automation with R
  By Romain Lesur
• Reproducible Corporate Publications with pagedown
  By Romain Lesur
• Iain Couzin Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Collective Behaviour
  Papers by Iain Couzin about collective behaviour. Link on twitter by Iza Romanowska
• A new era in the behavioural sciences
  Article in the online magazine of the University of Konstanz about Iain Couzin
• COMPLEXITAT
  Catalan Network for the Study of Complex Systems. Link on twitter by Iza Romanowska
• The R Project - The Use of R in Official Statistics - uRos2019 - Presentations
  
• Mastering continuous software development
  In this webcast, GitLab’s Technical Product Marketing manager, Tye Davis covered: - Three main approaches to the continuous software development methodology - The benefits of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment practices - A demonstration of GitLab’s CI/CD pipeline to build, test, deploy, and monitor your code
• How to interactively examine any R code
  How to interactively examine any R code - 4 ways to not just read the code, but delve into it step-by-step
• Demystifying Regular Expressions in R
  Beginners guide to regular expressions in R
• Open Culture
  Open books and courses
• Using the Tesseract OCR engine in R
  Tesseract vignette
• Reflections from a Dutchman in Shanghai
  Blog by Jaap Grolleman
• Digital Inking
  A blog by Hassan R. Aglan about digitizing any kind of hand drawings or photos and sharing ideas and practices regarding the Archaeological Digital Inking.
• A Docker tutorial for reproducible research
  This is an introduction to Docker designed for participants with knowledge about R and RStudio. The introduction is intended to be helping people who need Docker for a project. We first explain what Docker is and why it is useful. Then we go into the the details on how to use it for a reproducible transportable project.
• Dirichlet-multinomial distribution
  To this blog entry by Maya Gans was pointed to by a twitter entry emphasizing that this is an example of an Shiny app embedded in a blog entry.
• ggraph 2.0 package announcement visualization network
  It is an extension of ggplot2 that implement an extended grammar for relational data (e.g. trees and networks).
• Geospatial Analysis 6th Edition, 2018
  was mentioned by Kiri Carini. See website
• A Practical Extension of Introductory Statistics in Psychology using R
  was mentioned by Martine Wauben
• Introduction to Spatial Data Programming with R
  Course by Michael Dorman
• Spatial networks in R with sf and tidygraph
  By Lucas van der Meer, Robin Lovelace & Lorena Abad September 26, 2019
• Current Research of the Leiden-Turin Archaeological Mission in Saqqara. A Preliminary Report on the 2018 Season
  
• De G-sleutel en F-sleutel vergelijken - Muziek Leren Lezen
  How to play piano music (with G- and F- key) on guitar.
• Noten lezen voor gitaar
  Voor leerlingen, die met gitaarlessen beginnen, maar nog niet met het notenbeeld bekend zijn.
• Lilypond
  LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. LilyPond is free software and part of the GNU Project.
• Rmd first: When development starts with documentation
  By Sébastien Rochette. Documentation matters ! Think about future you and others. Whatever is the aim of your script and analyses, you should think about documentation. The way I see it, R package structure is made for that. Let me try to convince you.
• Fairport Convention Documentary 2017
  Youtube video
• The Oikofuge
• The Fagel Collection Trinity College Dublin
• The science behind the Blaeu World Map
  
• Hands-On Machine Learning with R
  By Bradley Boehmke and Brandon Greenwell
• R Markdown Cookbook
  by Yihui Xie. Also see other bookdown products
• Lazy evaluation
  A RStudio Youtube video by Jenny Bryan about Tidy Evaluation
• Scoping rules and NSE
  by Thomas Mailung
• Yet Another Introduction to Tidy Eval
  by Hiroaki Yutani
• https://tidyeval.tidyverse.org/
  Tidy evaluation by Lionel Henry and Hadley Wickham
• Applied Econometrics with R
  Course by Christian Kleiber and Achim Zeileis
• Digital Mappa
  DIGITAL MAPPA an open-source digital humanities platform for open-access workspaces, projects and publications
• R-atique
  Blog in French with opiniated overview of packages by Lise Vaudr
• usethis 1.6.0
  Hadley Wickham introducing usethis 1.6.0 that is now available on CRAN. usethis is a package that facilitates interactive workflows for R project creation and development.
  Interesting could be the GitHub Actions that are suggested to be used instead of other continuous integration tools like Travis and AppVeyor. Contains references to Github Actions with R by Chris Brown, Murray Cadzow, Paula A Martinez, Rhydwyn McGuire, David Neuzerling, David Wilkinson, and Saras Windecker, and Jim Hester’s rstudio::conf(2020) presentation
• Rendering your README with GitHub Actions
  By By Gavin Simpson
• Covid-19 giveback