Interview with Drew Bollinger from developmentSEED on Machine Learning.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning(ML) are one of those buzzwords that became really popular in recent years. How much hype vs. substance is behind them? Are they practical? How can you use them to solve your specific GIS problems? Those were just a few questions that had in mind and wanted to answer. Fortunately, I… Continue reading Interview with Drew Bollinger from developmentSEED on Machine Learning.

Interview with Silas Toms – the Python Expert who brought GIS to the Super Bowl

I wanted to interview Silas for quite some time because his Python books are well know in GIS community. My main goal with this interview was to dig deep into Silas’s experience and mine his insights mainly about learning programming. But, we’ve had such a good time that we went way beyond that! There are… Continue reading Interview with Silas Toms – the Python Expert who brought GIS to the Super Bowl

Programming jargon crusher: functions,methods and complex objects.

You’re with me so far? I hope so! Let’s talk about functions. So, what’s a function in programming? It’s just a piece of code that does a specific task and return a specific value. Easy, right? Let me give you an example. Let’s use a standard Javascript function called round that will round it’s argument… Continue reading Programming jargon crusher: functions,methods and complex objects.

Programming jargon crusher: grouped values.

In the last post I’ve told you everything you need to know about values and variables. And I hope you’ve enjoyed it! Those two concepts are really a fundamental parts of programming. Now, let’s move to learning about grouping values. So, a lot of times in programming there a lot of single values relate to each… Continue reading Programming jargon crusher: grouped values.

Programming jargon crusher: grouped values.

In the last post I’ve told you everything you need to know about values and variables. And I hope you’ve enjoyed it! Those two concepts are really a fundamental parts of programming. Now, let’s move to learning about grouping values. So, a lot of times in programming there a lot of single values relate to each… Continue reading Programming jargon crusher: grouped values.

Programming jargon crusher – Variables and Values.

In the previous post I’ve told you how lack of jargon understanding can hold us all back from learning new things. Here I would like to explain and clarity for you those few fundamental programming concepts that you will be using all the time when you’re working on your own programming project. Ok, so let’s get… Continue reading Programming jargon crusher – Variables and Values.

Programming jargon crusher – Variables and Values.

In the previous post I’ve told you how lack of jargon understanding can hold us all back from learning new things. Here I would like to explain and clarity for you those few fundamental programming concepts that you will be using all the time when you’re working on your own programming project. Ok, so let’s get… Continue reading Programming jargon crusher – Variables and Values.