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Re: Astronomy Dominates IDL Useage [message #61012] Sat, 28 June 2008 01:58
Justus Skorps is currently offline  Justus Skorps
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> Garching, GERMANY (outside Munich and home to ESO)

that's also plasma physics
Re: Astronomy Dominates IDL Useage [message #61024 is a reply to message #61012] Fri, 27 June 2008 07:50 Go to previous message
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, David Fanning wrote:

> But Lima, Peru!? I don't know what is going on there,

More astronomers in Chile than Peru AFAIK :-)

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Re: Astronomy Dominates IDL Useage [message #61025 is a reply to message #61024] Fri, 27 June 2008 07:37 Go to previous message
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On Jun 27, 9:23 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I was reading an article this morning that discussed the use
> of Google Trends (trends.google.com) to perform statistical
> procedures on Internet usage. I thought I would give it
> a try. Here are the top ten cities by visitors to my web
> page. Notice a trend here?
>
> Garching, GERMANY (outside Munich and home to ESO)
> Greenbest, MD (NASA Goddard)
> Boulder, CO (LASP, and ITTVIS)
> Berkeley, CA
> Pasadena, CA (JPL)
> Tucson, AZ
> Cambridge, MA
> Toulouse, FR
> Beijing, CHINA
> Lima, PERU
>
> Berkeley, Tucson, and Cambridge all have big astronomy
> centers, too.
>
> But Lima, Peru!? I don't know what is going on there,
> but my Spanish is getting pretty darn good. Anyone looking
> for an IDL course down there? I'm sure we could work out
> some kind of a deal. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

Lima Peru? Well, I did just visit there for two weeks earlier this
summer, and I use IDL, so I suppose google is just picking up on that
fact. Man, Google really does know everything! Who knew it followed
everyone's vacation plans!
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