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Building an Interactive National Parks Map (Part 2)
What are we doing here In Part1 of this series I talked about visting the sites of the National Parks system and trying to find a complete list of all sites and where they were. Since I couldn’t find what I was looking for I built a web scraper in Python that crawled across NPS.gov…
Building an Interactive National Parks Map (Part 1)
What are we doing here? The United States has one of the largest national park systems in the world with hundreds of sites. While the sixty-three parks themselves are what people first think of there are also national monuments, historical sites and more that fall under the NPS. The NPS sells a passport-like booklet that…
Data Cubes Are Just Like Excel
“We can check that in our Hyperdimensional Data Cube” If you’re looking for lingo that sounds fancy, makes you look smart and creates and air of mystery about data it’s hard to top a phrase like “Hyperdimensional Data Cube”. What exactly is it? How did your numbers come out of it? Well boss, it’s hard…
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