 Oh, hello. I was just taking care of some important reading. For decades, geographers have been interested in mapping patterns of phenomena on Earth's surface. Yet, until the 1960s, geographers could not identify those patterns or explain the significance of those patterns. The quantitative revolution changed all that in geography. By quantitative, I mean mathematics, and by mathematics, I mean statistics. Diseases, wars, climate change, in fact, every facet of humanity and nature create patterns on Earth's surface. Statistics and spatial analysis allows not only the patterns to be identified, but also explain the processes that creates those patterns. The most powerful aspect of being a geographer is coupling statistics and spatial analysis with the ability to explain the significance of those patterns. Geographic information analysis will allow you to do just that. Now, back to my reading.