• CaveExploder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    What a weird idea that there is any sort of rivalry between two data types used in the same science. I have a hard time believing that any geospatial science professor is in a war over this. Analogously this would be like two carpenters having a war over saws vs hammers. They are both indispensable tools in carpentry. Sometimes you saw something and then use a hammer on the next step, sometimes you hammer something and saw something next. It’s… You use both. You’ll always use both.

    • Synthuir@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      But someone making about as many spelling mistakes as there are words in the post should be the first red flag. This reads like someone who slept through an intro to GIS course, or someone who hates ESRI (based?) and wanted to simultaneously send their entire board of directors into seizures.

      Anyway, QGIS gang 😎

    • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      I went hunting and found OOP’s blog. There isn’t much more to the story, which I will transcribe here:

      until like LAST WEEK
      professor B publishes a paper that casually drops the word “husband”
      and obviously all the students are like “oh i didn’t know u were married!” because we read that shit like how white suburban mothers read People Magazine
      and shes like “yeah, it’s Professor A”
      and we all FLIPPED. THE FUCK. OUT
      we thought the framed picture of the two of them on professor A’s desk was ironic because hes that type of guy
      like, you gotta understand, these two have gotten into YELLING matches in hallways. these two refuse to go on trips with each other. but apparently they have a system where they quite LITERALLY leave all of their work at work and drive home in separate cars and literally NEVER work at home. it is SO funny

  • hdnsmbt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    okay SO, yeah, well, anyway, okay like, there’s this HILARIOUS RIVELRY going on between those two teachers I no and it’s all written DOWN in scientifatic PAPERS that are publicly available for anyone but I won’t LINK them because shirley my badly spelt TALE of what happened sprinkled with RANDOM capitalized WORDS is much more HILARIOUS than anybody readings it FOR themselves

  • weariedfae@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    I really hope you’re obfuscating the real thing they are fighting over because it makes zero sense that anyone would fight over which is “better”. Like, what? You… You have to use both like… All the time. I’ve never had a project outside of a class assignment that didn’t require both.

    WTF

    • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      My domain is more bioinformatics than GIS, but the way I imagined it was that if one was arguing that [thing] data is better, they’re arguing that if more people recognised the innate benefits of [thing], we wouldn’t have to rely on software that uses [other thing] so much, and that to properly utilise [thing], it would take a bit of radical reworking of workflows, but there would be significant long term net benefit.

      Basically, I think arguments like this tend to be more grounded in the socio-cultural practices of a research field than the absolute technical merits of an approach. Like in my domain, a DNA sequence is just a long sequence of 4 different letters (A, T, G & C), but there’s a bunch of ways we can encode that data into a file, many of which have trade-offs (and some of which are just an artifact of how things used to be done)

  • Yokozuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    I can oddly relate because I’m taking courses right now that deal with these data sets, GIS is a great field with lots of opprotunities that pays well even in entry positions. If anyone is curious, they should look it up. It can be used in soooo many different applications and fields, it’s very versatile.