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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.

do you mean bc of lack of precision or something else?

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