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Conversations with Professor Roger Bivand

During GEOSTAT2009 earlier this year, I had the pleasure to meet Professor Roger Bivand, a british geographer teaching in a norwegian economics schools who was kind enough to spend a week in Croatia sharing his knowledge on geostatistics with us.
He is one of the authors of the sp package for R and he has a [...]

Work ethics in troubled times

If you have been following the news, you have probably noticed that many of the problems that the economy is facing stem from risky – when not deliberately illegal – practices. In that sense, it will be difficult to forget the subprime morgages fiasco, Ponzi schemes pulled off by hedge funds managers, among many others [...]

Geotagging o cómo saber dónde hiciste cada foto

Llevaba tiempo queriendo escribir un post sobre geotagging, pero nunca encontraba ni el tiempo para hacerlo ni el momento adecuado en el que tuviese reciente un viaje para mostrarlo. Afortunadamente, este fin de semana estuve en el Valle del Jerte viendo los cerezos en flor y he aprovechado que tengo el proceso fresco para contarlo [...]