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title: 'About Me'
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summary: "This article explains how to batch import rasters into a PostGIS table"
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My name is Sam Chance, and this is my personal site.

I'm an independent Analytics Engineer with a passion for working with data. I built this website as a place to publish my personal work.

If you wish to work with me, then please email me on *contact@sjplab.com*.

More about my professional life [here](/cv).


### Shortcuts to some of my work:

- [Data Lab](/data-lab) A selection of charts and metrics obtained from public data

- [Map Printing Service](https://semitamaps.com) A free map printing service based on Openstreetmaps

- [Code base](https://git.bitlab21.com) My personal self-hosted git repo using Gitea

- [Nixos config](https://git.bitlab21.com/sam/nixos) My Nixos configuration

### Software I use:

- [**Neovim**](https://neovim.io/) for text editing (my neovim config is part of my [nixos](https://git.bitlab21.com/sam/nixos/src/branch/master/home/common/core/nixvim) configuration)

- I use **Linux** on all my machines

- **Nixos** and **Arch Linux** are my Linux distros of choice

- [**dwm**](https://dwm.suckless.org) is my window manager (my dwm [config](https://git.bitlab21.com/sam/dwm))

- [**st**](https://st.suckless.org) is my terminal emulator (my st [config](https://git.bitlab21.com/sam/st))

- I use [**QGIS**](https://www.qgis.org/) and [**Postgis**](https://postgis.net/) for geospatial work

- [**DBT**](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core) for data modelling

- [**Postgres**](https://www.postgresql.org/) is my relational database of choice to power my backends

- [**Hugo**](https://gohugo.io/) to build this [**website**](https://git.bitlab21.com/sam/bitlab21.com)