Also thank you to @Ducksual @mdsumner for the pointers on how to use GIS, geopandas, fiona, etc.
Even though you might think it was only a few minutes of your time your guidance motivated me to learn more. 
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@usethespacebar &@dimpase for helping out when we tried to get pdist to work in Python in parallel and then I ended up just writing it in C and Cython.
Just having you ask questions, give hints, and try stuff out was so supportive. https://github.com/oliviaguest/pdist/tree/master …
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I learned so much during this project. From how incredibly powerful Twitter is at giving help from technical to "just" psychological help when I need to vent. Many times I ask questions on here people reply and even if I end up doing it a completely different way the fact you all
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reply is amazingly supportive. I just want wanna end [for now] by listing a few of the things I learned or increased my knowledge on many times over on this project: JavaScript, GIS, Topo/GeoJSON files, how to use JSON-APIs in Python, geopandas, pandas, Cython, parallelising code
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in Python, brushing up on me C which I hadn't used since 2014 (aka why I stopped using C), USA politics and law,
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@arxiv was down (I think it's still suffering server probs) so I was expecting the preprint to be out yesterday, which was a bit upsetting — I was ready to share. I'm glad it's all sorted now but if it goes down again lemme know and I put the PDF up someplace else too.Show this thread -
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