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Geospatial Failures, Problem Selection, Being an Analyst/Scientist is Hard

Geospatial Failures, Problem Selection, Being an Analyst/Scientist is Hard

Update: 2025-11-08
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(00:00 ) Experimental failures. Krishna won't let Chris forget about his failed SimCLR experiments.

(04:30 ) Geographic generalization discussion. Husky vs Malamute vs Wellpad.

(11:32 ) Chris fails to map coconut palm because it's hard. Read the paper carefully.

(15:30 ) Krishna maps oil slicks, but it's hard.

(20:30 ) Cognitive debt, problem selection and failure modes in geospatial.

(31:00 ) The sales cycle, promises, inflated expectations. Limitations in geospatial.

(34:00 ) Problem selection in journalism. Are we running out of ideas?

(37:00 ) Turning a failure into a success. Cover crop mapping is hard.

(45:00 ) Turning failure into a success: predicting sugarcane yield is hard.

(49:00 ) Is building tooling easier than solving modeling problems?

(53:00 ) Vertical seems better than horizontal. Solutions are multi-modal.




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Geospatial Failures, Problem Selection, Being an Analyst/Scientist is Hard

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