[HN Gopher] Tobler's First Law of Geography ___________________________________________________________________ Tobler's First Law of Geography Author : sebwi Score : 32 points Date : 2020-10-30 11:59 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (en.wikipedia.org) (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org) | 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. | | Geography apparently has Kriging: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriging | | Economists have LOESS (okay, used beyond economics, i admit it): | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_regression | | Maybe geographers refuse to use LOESS because to them, that's a | boring rock? | | 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: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriging | | 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" ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-10-31 23:00 UTC)