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… ’cause I was a history major.  But I ended up doing a lot of database work around environmental sampling and analysis a decade or so back, so when I remember a term (quantitation limit<\/a>) that turned out to be handy to explain a management concept (over-analyzing project plans and tracking tasks to too fine a granularity) to some folks, it filled me with a lot of geeky joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… ’cause I was a history major.  But I ended up doing a lot of database work around environmental sampling and analysis a decade or so back, so when I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-jollies","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8101,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/google_gis.html","url_meta":{"origin":11011,"position":0},"title":"Google GIS","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-May-05 9:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"GIS means Geographical Information System, and it's been a keen application class I've been working with for the last decade or so, on and off. 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