Melissa Kimble - spatialmsk

Melissa Kimble

DigitalOcean + Wasabi

DigitalOcean + Wasabi

Wasabi 'Buckets' are additional storage that can be mounted within a virtual machine or connected to directly within Django and handy libraries like Django-Storages. Once mounted, a bucket looks the same as a directory (or folder). By all appearances it's a local folder, but in reality

MyTardis + MyData & PostgreSQL

The following are updated steps on setting up the latest production-ready versions of MyTardis [https://github.com/mytardis/mytardis] (v4.3.0) and MyData [https://github.com/mytardis/mytardis-app-mydata] (MyData_v0.3.2-98-g0149bd8) on a virtual machine with Ubuntu 18.04 [https://ubuntu.com/download]. This is an update from

RClone and Moving Cloud Storage

I've been a paying user of Dropbox for about six years, but through UMaine I get access to G Suite. G Suite includes Drive File Stream, which essentially provides the same service as Dropbox (with some considerations). I felt very uncomfortable with transferring my nearly 2TB of data

Mytardis and You

Mytardis and You

It's been a while and I haven't been keeping up to date with converting successful VM steps to blog posts. My most recent trial was putting an iteration of MyTardis [https://github.com/mytardis/mytardis] up on a virtual machine with Ubuntu 18.04 [https://ubuntu.

RShiny Server is Amazing

RShiny Server is Amazing

RShiny Server hosts RShiny applications: An example application [https://rshiny.spatialmsk.com/SEANET/] (code [https://github.com/mkimble88/shinyapps]) adapted from the superzip-example [https://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/superzip-example.html] from RShiny's Demos [https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-examples]. Struggling to find the best way to present or share

Cloud Platforms, CentOS 7, and Ghost

This blog sets up a website through the web publishing platform, Ghost. As a caveat, it only sets up Ghost as HTTP. In the future I will add in a blog for implementing an HTTPS website, which is strongly suggested and requires an unseen security handshake to take place to

GHC18 - Day 2 & 3

GHC18 - Day 2 & 3

Word of advice for any of you who are on your way to GHC and intend on interviewing like mad - make sure you either pre-register online or hit the Career Expo first thing in the morning on the first day, because those interview slots fill up quick. The setup

GHC18 - Day 1

I'm in day 1 of my first year at GHC, and holy sh*t (because cow doesn't cut it)! There are thousands of women, representatives from tech giants, academia, and a handful of national labs. The Career Expo is jam packed with so many booths (most

Welcome to Spatialmsk!

👋 Thanks for visiting my site! This is my attempt at keeping up regular reviews, thoughts, and comments on journal publications that cover topics ranging from data uncertainty, integration, and geographic information science (vague, I know). Other posts may also include events, experiences, outreach - you know, day-to-day stuff. But why!