Too deep is better than too shallow
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.
For the past few months I’ve been getting into Edward Tufte’s approach to visualizing data.
Earlier this year I found a great excuse to get familiar with TileMill and MapBox hosting, and wound up creating this map:
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).
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.