A thing that’s on my mind right now – how to tackle the last mile problem.
Author: Nat
Economics, Ethics, Quantum Physics, and Hydrology
I just read the Aeon.co article Economics is Quantum by David Orrell. The author makes some solid points about the state of economics, but I think he’s missing an even bigger opportunity to talk about science & engineering in general.
Searchable/collapsible FAQ
UPDATE – Ecology has a new website. The MS4 FAQ still exists, but it looks like the underlying technology has changed. Nothing permanent on the web, I guess. Design is still generally the same, which is cool, but they killed the fulltext search/filter, which is lame. Such is life.
Making D3.js and WordPress Play Nice
WordPress is a great, flexible blogging platform, but it can make things that are easy in straight HTML, like simple Javascript, kind of a pain. Slightly more complicated things, like showing demos of neat D3.js tricks, can be tough. This afternoon, though, I got it working.
Visualizing Water Quality Data
For the past few months I’ve been getting into Edward Tufte’s approach to visualizing data.
TileMill and Mapbox
Earlier this year I found a great excuse to get familiar with TileMill and MapBox hosting, and wound up creating this map:
NASS Crop Data Layer
I’ve been spending some time with the National Agricultural Statistical Service Crop Data Layer (everyone with a passing interest in GIS should know about CropScape).
PLSLWD Interactive Map
One of my first projects for the Prior Lake – Spring Lake Watershed District was to help oversee the renovation of their website. I didn’t think it was exciting enough as it was, so I created a Google Maps application so visitors can get information on a lake with a single click.