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Important announcement:

Better suggestion:

DuckDB spatial is good now btw (h3 in particular)

Not a fan of Hexagon partitions. To be clear, they’re efficient for db indexing but not good for science stuff which unfortunately lot of practitioners don’t get.

There’s a fundamental problem in spatial statistics known as the modifiable areal unit problem. Essentially the spatial perimeter of basic units of analysis strongly influences the results of a model, most notoriously regressions.

Geographers give economists problems for using zip codes. This is wayyyy worse