<div dir="ltr" gmail_original="1"><div>Field calculator uses 'expressions' - which are useful across QGIS. I have a workshop specifically to learn QGIS expressions from the ground up. Check the workshop at <a href="https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/qgis-expressions.html">https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/qgis-expressions.html</a> along with the video at <a href="https://youtu.be/x3i9qyFGgcQ">https://youtu.be/x3i9qyFGgcQ</a></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">---<div>Ujaval Gandhi</div><div>Spatial Thoughts</div><div><a href="http://www.spatialthoughts.com" target="_blank">www.spatialthoughts.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM Priyank Shah via QGIS-User <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I'm a Wildlife Biologist willing to upskill myself, so I took a course on Udemy - "Open source GIS and Remote sensing for conservation."</div><div><br></div><div>The course is amazing, has great resources and contents and just focuses on the conservation aspects of GIS which is what I wanted to do.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem for me began when it introduced the Field Calculator, so the thing is I'm more of a practical person by practising things I learn and understand it better rather than someone just showing it or theoretical.</div><div><br></div><div>So, when I learned the course I stumbled on the calculator, to complete the assignments and following the instructor was easy as it was just copy paste, but my biggest problem is How do I learn to work the calculator by my own like to follow the instructor it just copying him, but if i want to progress in it and work on my own, I'm totally confused and blank on what are the functions how to navigate, why only certain functions need to be selected and not the other, even having the same name.</div><div><br></div><div>So, is there a better simpler way of doing this?</div><div><br></div><div>I really want to learn QGIS from its conservation point of view. Indeed I liked doing it when I tried doing other things on my own, but this field calculator got me a bit anxious.</div><div><br></div><div>If there are ways of learning some tips or tricks, I would really appreciate your help guys!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks so much.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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