[GRASSLIST:9015] Re: ArcView vs GRASS

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:44:35PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, pmarc wrote:
> 
> >Actually, I work at a R&D facility. What I've heard is that some companies
> >are more interested in having results quickly than in having the right,
> >thought through, scientificaly based results, which can take much more time
> >to arise than the other way. Then, it should be easy to collate some pretty
> >pictures and present it to manager and [buzzword alert!] stakeholders.
> 
>   At the risk of going too far off-topic, there was a book written many 
>   years
> ago called, "How to Lie With Statistics." There should be a companion volume
> called, "How to Lie With Maps."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226534219/104-4531214-4025553?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance

An amusing little read, actually.

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