fallenoutwithmyhead replied to your photo “Playing around with QGIS while helping a friend with his final paper. ”
Okay, I give. What's QGIS? Or, for that matter, GIS? The map is cool, BTW.
Hehehe, GIS stands for either Geographic or Geospatial Information Systems, i.e hardware, software, remote sensing, data capture, and all sorts of tools to "visualize, question, analyze, interpret, and understand data to reveal relationships, patterns, and trends." I.e we make pretty maps and infovis charts and diagrams!
QGIS is Quantum GIS, an open source software package as opposed to the industry standard ArcGIS that everyone else and their mom and grandmom uses. We used Q for the last class that I just finished and I'm still putzing around with it. :)
The fact that it's free helps a lot too lol and it'll look good on my resume to say that I'm proficient in both programs when I get my GIS job in the not so near future. :)