&what;
A quick, interactive reference of 14,500 HTML character entities and common Unicode characters, 8859-1 characters, quotation marks, punctuation marks, accented characters, symbols, mathematical symbols, and Greek letters, icons, and markup-significant & internationalization characters.
Colorgorical
A tool featuring a series of adjustable sliders for customizing a color palette based on perceptual distance between hues, the differences between hue names, how close together the hues are on the color wheel, and the specificity of hue names.
ColorMoves
An interactive colormap construction tool for visualizing scientific data in a colorful, artistic and transformative way.
Command Line Basics | Windows
A tutorial by Codrut Neagu on some basic Windows CMD commands to help you get around the Command Prompt.
Data Types
Review of numpy dtypes such as i, f, and d.1
GDAL Tutorials
Tutorials for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) and its application program interfaces (APIs).
GIS Reader
Davis’s introductory reader on geographic information systems.
Git Basics
Some useful commands for a basic git project workflow.
Git Reference
A quick reference guide, including a cheat sheet and complete list of all commands.
Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata
(PDF) Metadata Working Group.
HDF Knowledge Base
Search the HDF knowledge base for answers; powered by The HDF Group.
NetCDF
A look at the NetCDF library architecture for the classic and enhanced data model.
Pandoc’s Markdown
This document explains the extended and slightly revised version of John Gruber’s Markdown syntax.
Perl Regular Expressions
Link to metacharacters used in Perl regular expressions.
Properly Installing Python
The hitchhiker’s guide to properly install Python on Windows, Mac and Linux as well as how to setup virtual environments for your own individual projects or classes.
QGIS Print Layout
Link to a lesson using the QGIS print composer for creating map layouts with titles, legends, scalebars, etc.
R Markdown Cheatsheet
(PDF) Condensed info on formatting with markdown in R.
R Markdown Websites
The basics of creating websites with R Markdown and some examples you can use as a starting point for your own.
StackEdit
An in-browser markdown editor and live renderer.
Terminal Cheatsheet | Mac
A list of some most used commands and shortcuts in the terminal for Mac by Onno Schwanen.
Thesaurus of Mathematical Languages
A quick reference of mathematical computation environments for computer algebra, numeric processing, and data visualization including synonymous commands in MATLAB, Python, R, and others.2
Understanding Map Projections
(PDF) Esri’s textbook on coordinate systems, geographic transformations, and recommended projections.

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