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Question of the Week [Bingo Square 23]: In celebration of National Dog Day...

  • August 26, 2025
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danielleatsafe
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Happy National Dog Day 🐶

At Safe Software, we know data isn’t dry - and today we’re proving it with a little fun! To celebrate, we paired some of our favourite data types with their perfect canine counterpart, based on the personality traits they share.

Think: Golden Retriever = Relational Data ➡️ friendly, trusting, and always ready to share! 🐕✨

Watch the video here. Then tell us in the comments below: what’s your dog data type? 

 

Earn Square 23 in FME Community Bingo!

We’re celebrating summer with a fun surprise - FME Community Bingo!

From August 11 to August 31, 2025, we’re inviting all FME users to join in on a fun and interactive way to connect with fellow members of the FME Community.

Whether you’re answering a question, uploading an image, or participating in a team challenge, each completed task earns you a square on the Bingo board - and every square is a chance to win exciting prizes! 

Answer this Question of the Week to cross off Square 23 on the Bingo board.

53 replies

crutledge
Influencer
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  • August 26, 2025

Colour me black and white. Herding all them x,y,zeds :D
 

Yip! Gyit in line!

 


arcvancouver
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  • August 26, 2025

 

Dogpool - for shapefiles that never die. Just sayin’ 😂


david_r
Celebrity
  • August 26, 2025

Why, it’s my favorite buddy JSON, of course!

 


hkingsbury
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  • August 26, 2025

I’m more a cat person than a dog person, so I asked ChatGPT what it thinks:


A Cat would be an object-oriented, non-deterministic class with random behavior and built-in exceptions.

Class / Object: A cat has properties (color, age, name, attitude) and methods (sleep, eat, ignore, knockOver), so it naturally fits as an object instantiated from a Cat class.

Non-deterministic type: Cats return different results for the same input (call(cat) might return come, ignore, or scratch).

Nullable: Sometimes they just disappear for hours and effectively become null.

Concurrent / Multi-threaded: Cats can be sleeping and hunting dust motes in their dreams at the same time.

Error-prone: Accessing cat.belly often throws ScratchException.

 

 


matthieuv
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  • August 26, 2025
For that loyal data that is waiting for you to return.

 


crutledge
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  • August 26, 2025

I’m more a cat person than a dog person, so I asked ChatGPT what it thinks:


A Cat would be an object-oriented, non-deterministic class with random behavior and built-in exceptions.

Class / Object: A cat has properties (color, age, name, attitude) and methods (sleep, eat, ignore, knockOver), so it naturally fits as an object instantiated from a Cat class.

Non-deterministic type: Cats return different results for the same input (call(cat) might return come, ignore, or scratch).

Nullable: Sometimes they just disappear for hours and effectively become null.

Concurrent / Multi-threaded: Cats can be sleeping and hunting dust motes in their dreams at the same time.

Error-prone: Accessing cat.belly often throws ScratchException.

 

 

@hkingsbury 

Is that a cata type ? 😂


mmccart
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  • August 26, 2025

I am a fan of Alaskan Malamutes or any sled dog breed. I also like working with APIs within the FME Platform. Just like a sled dog team, FME+APIs are great instruments to get items/data from Point A to Point B.

 


matthieuv
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  • August 26, 2025

I’m more a cat person than a dog person, so I asked ChatGPT what it thinks:


A Cat would be an object-oriented, non-deterministic class with random behavior and built-in exceptions.

Class / Object: A cat has properties (color, age, name, attitude) and methods (sleep, eat, ignore, knockOver), so it naturally fits as an object instantiated from a Cat class.

Non-deterministic type: Cats return different results for the same input (call(cat) might return come, ignore, or scratch).

Nullable: Sometimes they just disappear for hours and effectively become null.

Concurrent / Multi-threaded: Cats can be sleeping and hunting dust motes in their dreams at the same time.

Error-prone: Accessing cat.belly often throws ScratchException.

 

 

@hkingsbury 

Is that a cata type ? 😂

Turns out cata types don’t work well with LiDAR point clouds — it just keeps chasing the laser points instead of processing them!


jdh
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  • August 26, 2025

Thai Ridgeback, all about the elevation.
 

 


chriswilson
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  • August 26, 2025

Recently lived with a greyhound, open and shut case 😀  They are so docile and lack control over their tongue (see ‘escaping tongue syndrome’!) but man they are adorable...and the zoomies are elite!


NickAtSafe
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  • August 27, 2025

Easy Answer - Golden Data Retriever! 

 


andrew_o
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  • August 27, 2025

Looks like I’m a Border Collie as well. Good for wrangling data gone awry.


tripunovskidark
Contributor
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GeoPurrquet: When Data Meets Dogged Determination 🐾📊

 


lifalin2016
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  • August 27, 2025

Not a dog person myself, but the Australian Shepherd sounds somewhat like me ;-) 


alexbiz
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  • August 27, 2025
Come on, I JOIN the pack perfectly, can’t you see?


 


susannel
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  • August 27, 2025

Well, I would describe myself as the German Shepherd dog person - logical and structured - and the Mutt dog person - unpredictable and quirky. 


lambertus
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  • August 27, 2025

I like the Labrador of the video, Qualitative data is fun to work with


redgeographics
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As I like all sorts of data and am a big Discworld fan, there’s only one possible answer: Thcrapth! The pet dog of the Igor from Carpe Jugulum

...they naturally brought along their Igor, who is more traditionally minded than his employers and has a dog named Scraps (or "Thcrapth") that he built himself.


geomancer
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  • August 27, 2025

Our Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever keeps on changing direction while running,so I would compare him with Unstructured Data.


geobroetchen
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I’m more a all dog type because with the capability of FME we can work with all of them😅

But for me, the most important thing is that the dogs (data) behave well and that the owners take care of their dogs and know that they should clean up after them 😁 Nothing is worse than shitty data.


luciero
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  • August 27, 2025

My Frenchie as an FME Feature:

Feature Type: FrenchBulldog

Attributes:

  • Temperament = playful

  • SnoreLevel = high

  • Zoomies = yes

Transformers he goes through daily:

  • SnoreGenerator → every nap turns into motorbike sounds

  • ZoomieScheduler → random bursts of chaos in the living room

  • AttributeManager → switches from stubborn → cuddly in seconds

Output Port: AffectionOutput ❤️


matt_miso
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  • August 27, 2025

My dog would be a boolean - either fast asleep or pure chaos.


gtimms
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  • August 27, 2025

I’d be more of a golden retriever, always happy to go and do something ridiculous someone is asking me to do!


mystery_user
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  • August 27, 2025

A “REAL” dog is my type

 

 


melissanilsson
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Staffordshire Bullterrier = Object-Oriented Data
Loyal, strong, and protective of their “objects” (family and friends). Can be stubborn, but flexible and versatile when needed. 🐾