📉 Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-time Analytics

I thought this was a great post on how unnecessary “real-time” analytics can be when misused. As the author points out, it’s almost never necessary to have data that current. With current software it’s possible to have infinite analytics on everything, and as a result it’s irresistable to many people to think of those metrics as essential for decision making.

This line of thinking is a trap. It’s important to divorce the concepts of operational metrics...

This week we’ve had Kurt Menke in the office (of Bird’s Eye View GIS) providing a guided training workshop for QGIS, the canonical open source GIS suite.

#qgis workshop selfie @spatialnetworks ... a great group hard at work! pic.twitter.com/fp1jNsQMFL

— Kurt Menke (@geomenke) May 28, 2019

It’s been a great first two days covering a wide range of topics from his book titled Discovering QGIS 3.

The team attending the workshop is a diverse group...

Each year GIS developer and cartographer Nyall Dawson puts together a thread of daily tweets leading up to Christmas, each with a helpful tip for QGIS. You can see all of them at the hashtag #24daysofqgis.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Day 8: Use the handy #QGIS Ctrl+F6 shortcut to open an attribute table containing only visible features, and Shift+F6 for a table containing only selected features. #24daysofqgis pic.twitter.com/ko1iIuxTvL

— North Road (@northroadgeo) December 8, 2018

Day 11: Use...