Darren Wiens

@darrenwiens.github.io

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Team lead, geospatial dev/honorary data science at Sparkgeo. Sharing proofs of concept and other map weirdness. Skeets my own, sadly.

A cursed map of the Netherlands with an eye and mouth superimposed, making it look like a face
Chess win prob chart showing white dominating for most of the game, except the last moment when black (me) gets a checkmate
AI chat: “how long after eating can you swim? You can swim immediately after eating. The idea of waiting 30 to 60 minutes is widely considered a myth.”
Chess win probability chart showing white clearly losing for most of the game and then a big spike at the end of the game.
An image of an in-flight map showing the aircraft entering the Bermuda Triangle
Image of Gmail app with 10k unreads
Photo of a piece of ham between two chocolate chip cookies, sandwich-style
Image from Big Mistakes where character Morgan holds several types of shovels, plus an ice scraper.
demo of the app, changing parameters, watching preview change for the calendar entries. ultimately, user downloads the ics file.
original axe
A photo featuring a wheel barrow full of artisanal kindling
News text, including, “More electric ferry services are being announced in cities from Vancouver to Halifax.”
Nova Scotia burn restrictions map. Most of the map is under moderate burn restrictions.
mlb pitching stat, showing catcher tyler heineman's era = 22.50 while pitcher brendon little's era = 47.25
Interstellar meme showing astronaut, and text, "this little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years".
Image showing mlb spring training standing with Washington record 3-0 and win percentage 1.167 (source: ESPN)
dreaded generic error 999999 message from arcgis
Chicks in a box
Cloudflare.com can’t be reached because cloudflare
Image showing search for cloudflare, which fails because of internal server error
A big rock with two very long straight cracks
Log splitter specs showing 50" max log diameter
A photo of a Willie Nelson album and burning wood stove
Bluejays 2-1 Yankees
Bluejays Yankees score 11-0
excerpt of fb post saying "does anyone have aged manure?"
A beautiful sunset, but there just happens to be a huge spider suspended in the corner
conveyor belt meme showing many python string templating methods, and worker noticing that there is a new method: t-strings.
Two fireflies doing it
Chili on a tortilla
A hand holding two shiny gold-colored nuggets
A video of a jellyfish
Cut boards with adhesive applied to the inside surfaces.
Two boards overlapping, the top board has been cut along the triangle and waster wood removed. The bottom board has been partially cut along the triangle during the first cut.
Overlapping boards with an 18" long triangle drawn/cut on the top board (the bottom board is also cut).
two 2x6 boards spliced together
A hand holding a shiny metal rock. Is it gold?
Two ladybugs doin’ it way up atop an in construction wall
A framed wall attempting to be erected with the use of a chain hoisting from a nearby tree.
Sunset over water, fishing pole
Temperature forecast showing lows of -100 C
a map showing pittsburgh, on
Sunset, ocean, fire, kayak photo
Overlay of panorama and horizon profile
A horizon profile generated by the dem-to-oblique api.
a 360 panorama
A video showing the use of an interactive map. The user seems to be inside a cube with maps on four walls and the floor. The user clicks on buttons to move in cardinal directions.