Bela Lugosi's Dad on Nostr: Probably the most depressing thing I find when reviewing a paper, is when the authors ...
Probably the most depressing thing I find when reviewing a paper, is when the authors spend 5 pages and 6 figures describing in awesome details the GIS processing chain they build in ArcGIS ModelBuilder, complete with screenshots of all their ModelBuilder workflows - when they could have done precisely the same analysis in R or Python and just attached their source code to the paper for others to use. GUI-based GIS software is so bad for scientific publishing. #gis
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