Question of the Week [Bingo Square 23]: In celebration of National Dog Day...
Happy National Dog Day š¶
At Safe Software, we know data isnāt dry - and today weāre 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 ā”ļø friendly, trusting, and always ready to share! šāØ
Watch the video here. Then tell us in the comments below: whatās your dog data type?Ā
FromĀ August 11 to August 31, 2025, weāre inviting all FME users to join in on a fun and interactive way to connect with fellow members of the FME Community.
Whether youāre answering a question, uploading an image, or participating in a team challenge, each completed task earns you a square on the Bingo boardĀ - and every square is a chance to win exciting prizes!Ā
Answer this Question of the Week to cross off Square 23 on the Bingo board.
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Colour me black and white. Herding all them x,y,zeds :D Ā
Yip! Gyit in line!
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Dogpool - for shapefiles that never die. Just sayināĀ š
Why, itās my favorite buddy JSON, of course!
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Iām 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.
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For that loyal data that is waiting for you to return.
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Iām 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.
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Is that aĀ cata type ?Ā š
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.
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Iām 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.
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Is that aĀ cata type ?Ā š
Turns out cata types donāt work well with LiDAR point clouds ā it just keeps chasing the laser points instead of processing them!
Thai Ridgeback, all about the elevation. Ā
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Recently lived with a greyhound, open and shut case šĀ They are so docile and lack control over their tongue (see āescaping tongue syndromeā!) but manĀ they are adorable...and the zoomies are elite!
Easy Answer - Golden Data Retriever!Ā
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Looks like Iām a Border Collie as well. Good for wrangling data gone awry.
GeoPurrquet: When Data Meets Dogged Determination š¾š
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Not a dog person myself, but the Australian Shepherd sounds somewhat like me ;-)Ā
Come on, I JOIN the pack perfectly, canāt you see?
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Well, I would describe myself as the German Shepherd dog person - logical and structured - and the Mutt dog person - unpredictable and quirky.Ā
I like the Labrador of the video, Qualitative data is fun to work with
As I like all sorts of data and am a big Discworld fan, thereās 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.
Our Nova Scotia Duck Tolling RetrieverĀ keeps on changingĀ direction while running,so I would compare him with Unstructured Data.
Iām more a all dog type because with the capability of FME we can work with all of themš
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 themĀ š Nothing is worse than shitty data.
My Frenchie as an FME Feature:
Feature Type:FrenchBulldog
Attributes:
Temperament = playful
SnoreLevel = high
Zoomies = yes
Transformers he goes through daily:
SnoreGenerator ā every nap turns into motorbike sounds
ZoomieScheduler ā random bursts of chaos in the living room
AttributeManager ā switches from stubborn ā cuddly in seconds
Output Port:AffectionOutput ā¤ļø
My dog would be a boolean - either fast asleep or pure chaos.
Iād be more of a golden retriever, always happy to go and do something ridiculous someone is asking me to do!
A āREALā dog is my type
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Staffordshire Bullterrier = Object-Oriented Data Loyal, strong, and protective of their āobjectsā (family and friends). Can be stubborn, but flexible and versatile when needed. š¾