[quote=@Raven_Operative]
[@AtomicNut] Heh, nothing quite that glamorous. I'm a computer science student, and my lab focuses on information visualization and analysis. Of course that sounds absolutely worthless to the general public ("so... you just make pretty graphs?"), so stuff like this really annoys me.
[/quote]Well, you can easily turn that around by telling them what this information is used for after processing. Farmers don't talk about the details of their work unless it's the topic. They talk about their product and explain in a rough roundabout way what they do to ensure its quality.