I’m also interested in this process. I work for the state of California and I use Julia for some basic data analysis and manipulation. I have some scripts that access some pretty comprehensive database about pesticide use in the state and have been meaning to learn more about the process, but also share some of the stuff I know. @mthelm85 for example, helped me in the past to do some mapping using VegaLite and I did a scientific presentation with that.
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