Let’s wrap-up the year with a few things I learned in 2015.
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- 95% of all the maps you see on the internet, or that you make for your own purposes, could probably be replaced with a nicely formatted table. *The exception – those cool web maps that show animation with some sort of time value. Those are rad.
- QGIS, R, python, and PostGIS keep getting better and better.
- ArcGIS Pro, at least for me, totally missed the spot.
- Formatting and sharing data is easy. *Knowing how to properly analyze it*when you have it takes skill.
- Everyone has big data and no one has big data.
- I really don’t care about online mapping. *It’s cool, but*I am a technical analyst, and numbers and stats are more important to me in*my line of work.
- Don’t believe anything you read in blogs or on twitter. * Especially mine
- Using “Geo” as a prefix automatically makes you look like you know what you are doing.
- All the cool kids are doing geospatial analysis.
- Spatial isn’t special. If it really was, we would all be making a lot more money.
- If you are young, in college,*and interested in GIS, I recommend you go into*a natural/earth science or engineering field. Learn some stats, and get some programming. You will either learn how to use GIS on the side in a required course or in*the*job you got with your degree in your technical field where you learned how to do analysis. I don’t think majoring in “GIS” is a good idea anymore.
- side note – If you want major in geography, make sure you go the quantitative/technical route.
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