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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Thanks also to
@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,
@travisci,@codecov... I'm sure there is more but I'll leave it that for now. Also forgot to say thanks to@ctitusbrown for a variety of things including help with CI1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
and with trying to make the
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Oh, also
@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.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
The PDF seems to have lost a line or two, but it still makes sense :-)
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What do you mean?
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This is what p2, left column looks like in my rendering:pic.twitter.com/k1kMSYe2uu
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Nothing missing. The -ing is from the previous page. 
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Here see this annotated screenshot from: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.04640.pdf …pic.twitter.com/XgD8eIA8BJ
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