[HN Gopher] Tobler's First Law of Geography
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       Tobler's First Law of Geography
        
       Author : sebwi
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2020-10-30 11:59 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | maybelsyrup wrote:
       | His name is Tobler? His _first_ law, you say? Would it be fair,
       | then, to call it  "Tobler one"?
        
       | twic wrote:
       | Something i find really fun is that every specific field of study
       | has developed its own completely general statistical tools.
       | There's no reason they couldn't be used in other fields. They
       | just aren't.
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       | Geography apparently has Kriging:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriging
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       | Economists have LOESS (okay, used beyond economics, i admit it):
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_regression
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       | Maybe geographers refuse to use LOESS because to them, that's a
       | boring rock?
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       | Astronomers have sophisticated deconvolution algorithms that are
       | completely unrelated to the ones microscopists use, etc.
        
       | Waterluvian wrote:
       | My favourite "application" of this law is Kriging:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriging
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       | Has allowed me to make some pretty awesome spatial interpolations
       | of water surveying and wifi quality data using unmanned robots,
       | especially given the massive isotropic bias of the collection
       | method that makes many other methods nonviable.
        
       | k2xl wrote:
       | How is this not just common sense? Not trying to sound cynical...
       | I don't have background in this space. Honestly trying to
       | understand why "things that are close together and more related
       | than things farther apart" is considered so profound.
        
       | Upvoter33 wrote:
       | Computer types would say: "the law of spatial locality"
        
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