Mastering GitHub Pages (Jekyll and GitHub Pages)

Following our recent post on "Safeguards and Backups for GitHub Organizations", nearly one month ago we went one step further and made two-factor authentication (2FA) required for all members and outside collaborators of our main organization, ropensci.It was a timely decision as GitHub since then announced it will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of

Previously on this blog we have discussed making geojson maps and uploading to Github for interactive visualization with USGS BISON data, and with GBIF data, and on my own personal blog. This is done using a file format called geojson , a file format based on JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) in which you can specify geographic data along with any other metadata.