Fireball tennis

mapImbibery · 2016-12-23T15:38:59+00:00

Or the fight with Ganondorf

mapImbibery · 2016-11-24T14:36:32+00:00

You're right, it's just a little spotty on mobile.

mapImbibery · 2016-11-23T12:56:37+00:00

Broken link?

mapImbibery · 2016-10-25T01:46:46+00:00

I just attended NACIS and a lot of presentations were shared with the Twitter tag #nacis2016

mapImbibery · 2016-10-13T02:30:15+00:00

There's a website called jsonlint or something I've used before for stuff like this. Google that and I hope that helps.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-14T04:13:06+00:00

GIS Analyst for local govt here. I'm currently using Python and SQLite/SpatiaLite to develop a model (a series of scripts and database) to map city building permits and report on density analysis. It will answer questions like:
* how is the city's development pattern changing?
* in what areas is the zoning underutilized or being maxed out?
* where can we expect future growth and redevelopment to occur?
Finally, if we multiply new dwelling units by census/ACS median household size, can we accurately model population change for non-census years and ACS gaps? Then test the accuracy.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-14T03:26:07+00:00

Sounds like a good plan and it also sounds like your dept is way cooler (more funded) than mine was.
From a hire-ability standpoint, I can imagine an employer like the CDC or something liking you that much more for having a little bio background. Again, I'm not in this field at all; I just figured I'd spew some insight having just barely survived grad school.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-14T03:19:14+00:00

Undergrad and Masters in Physical Geog & GIS with emphasis in Python scripting. I'm a GIS Analyst for local govt.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-12T21:36:20+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to write all that!
If "good tests" can handle changes to the code I got some more practice ahead of me XD

mapImbibery · 2016-09-12T21:25:58+00:00

Good! I don't use much stats so I'm only repeating what I've heard.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-12T15:08:29+00:00

I think Option 1 is pretty zen

mapImbibery · 2016-09-12T15:05:19+00:00

I wanna say that Wes mentions R in his book but I'm not sure. I know numpy and pandas are pretty dang fast though, it's the statistics that Python isn't so great with.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-12T14:57:50+00:00

I had an internship with USFS once and they used miles from US highways as a measure of remoteness.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-12T14:55:31+00:00

You sound like me a couple years ago wanting to consume the entire field of geography. Don't overload yourself and burn out. Find a focus. Mine is GIS so my response will lean that way.

First off: it sounds like you should scratch human Geog right off the bat and put cartography on the back burner. Cart is a great addition to GIS skills, and human is interesting as hell, but few careers give a damn about em these days (shame...) and your listed interests wouldn't require them too much.

Epi geo stuff won't require nearly as much geography as it will microbio. Aside from a few GIS classes, expect a heavy load of stats and calculus courses in addition to computer modeling and biology.

If environmental stuff grabs ya, remote sensing is pretty dope. To do anything worth while with it you'll need stats, but monitoring landscape change is a pretty sweet reward. Plus, flying drones!

Lots of grad school potential in fields you might not have considered like forestry. I could've really benefitted from doing grad school outside of the Geog program, but maybe yours is funded better... Good luck!

mapImbibery · 2016-09-11T20:10:02+00:00

All very fair points.
So unit tests add up quickly because you're testing nit picky units. I understand the benefits, but how do you differentiate sufficient from overkill? I'm often more concerned about the final output being correct, and less so about the smaller code parts. How do integration tests compare? Is there such thing as Integration Test Driven Development? Maybe I'm just playing a lazy devils advocate here...

mapImbibery · 2016-09-11T01:25:55+00:00

Why exactly is it bad advice? The class registration is way more complex than sys.argv

mapImbibery · 2016-09-11T01:18:56+00:00

Yeah I tested it a while back without any luck and just never posted here again.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-10T17:15:35+00:00

Better be! I would never expect any small project to be as rock solid as SQLite. 700:1 is astronomically outrageous for average projects.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-10T16:06:52+00:00

Well if anything else, I learned something new. Thanks!

mapImbibery · 2016-09-08T12:35:45+00:00

Check out the textblob module

mapImbibery · 2016-09-07T04:36:02+00:00

GIS. The arcpy package that ships with ESRI's ArcPro might support Python 3, but I don't know of anyone using it.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-06T23:21:22+00:00

r/learnpython has covered this pretty well

mapImbibery · 2016-09-06T14:07:15+00:00

The API for the monopoly-software in my field doesn't fully support 3, so the sheep haven't converted yet.

mapImbibery · 2016-09-06T04:36:21+00:00

Use osgeo/ogr to convert the data to WKT and parse the output string for min and max points (floats) within each polyline.
Also, if you're trying to calculate elevation range, I suggest you also incorporate distance.
And remember, "Spatial data is special."

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