@helenmakesmaps.bsky.social
Cartographer, data visualizer, beans on toast defender. helenmakesmaps.com for tutorials
What does AI mean for entry-level employment in geo? How can we benefit from the tech of today without limiting the talent of tomorrow?
Thoughts and ideas for graduates, employers & educators from someone totally unqualified to have them (me) ๐
www.helenmakesmaps.com/post/what-do...
10/10 recommend for lovers of geography & pubs, the perfect combo! ๐๐ป
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๐ป Where can you see Mt. Fuji from?
Check out my tutorial for creating these types of visualisations here: helenmakesmaps.com/post/how-to-...
#GIS #geospatial
I made both of these maps today ๐
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My content de-gating continues - and here's my latest piece: How to run visibility analysis in QGIS!
๐ฅ Run visibility analysis with free tools
๐ธ Find awesome, high res data
๐ Turn this into epic visualizations
www.helenmakesmaps.com/post/how-to-...
๐๐ฝ NYC taxi trips
Pink areas = more pickups
Blue areas = more dropoffs
Explore the interactive version ๐ clausa.app.carto.com/map/c79de176...
Raster has just landed on the cloud and it is MASSIVE! โ๏ธ
One of my favourite parts of my job is I get to play with - I mean, "test and quality assure" - these things, and here are some of my favourite raster experiments in CARTO so far!
More stuff ๐ carto.com/blog/unlock-...
Sometimes I look at my AI prompts and wonder if I even think any more
18.02.2025 17:32 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0US open data is disappearing at a scary rate, I never normally recommend this but... Make local copies!!
14.02.2025 21:27 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Guess I just won't map US flood risk today then. Wild that this data is just... Gone?
14.02.2025 20:18 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0๐ฏ, if only we could standardise the spelling of it ๐
10.02.2025 17:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I don't want to see a pie chart that shows % of my life trying to guess whether a date field in some data is formatted for US or everyone else.
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Thank you for calling this behaviour out!! ๐ this is Olly, my 6kg tabby monster
25.01.2025 19:30 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Mega excited for the Geospatial Risk Summit next week in NYC! ๐ฝ ๐บ๐ธ
I'll be running a "Scaling climate risk analysis with CARTO" technical workshop where we'll be doing this low-code analysis ๐ and making this map ๐ to use real-time weather alerts to stay up-to-date on potential claims.
After making a massive $7.19 in 4 months (less than the $10 payout threshold), I've decided to start ungating my Medium-hosted tutorials (it's not really in the knowledge-sharing spirit anyway!) and migrate them to my website, starting with... www.helenmakesmaps.com/post/how-to-... ๐๐บ๏ธ
17.01.2025 11:10 โ ๐ 62 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Thank you!!! I'm not quite sure what that means yet but it for sure sounds like a good thing!
15.01.2025 16:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0hahahaha this genuinely made me laugh out loud!!
15.01.2025 15:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Aaah that's SO nice! Thank you!!! ๐
15.01.2025 15:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0THANK YOU!! ๐
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Hi I'm Helen and I don't know how Bluesky works! I'll be sharing maps & dataviz that I make and love - as well as tutorials on how to recreate them!
These will likely be interspersed with photos of my enormous cat and/or lunch.
What do I do
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