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Mass Transit

Posted on 2018-01-13 by Nat

A thing that’s on my mind right now – how to tackle the last mile problem.

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Economics, Ethics, Quantum Physics, and Hydrology

Posted on 2018-01-06 by Nat

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.

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FAQ Screenshot

Searchable/collapsible FAQ

Posted on 2015-10-172018-01-06 by Nat

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.

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D3.js Example

Making D3.js and WordPress Play Nice

Posted on 2013-06-092016-07-23 by Nat

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.

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Water Quality Graph

Visualizing Water Quality Data

Posted on 2013-05-072016-07-23 by Nat

For the past few months I’ve been getting into Edward Tufte’s approach to visualizing data.

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Hex Tiling

TileMill and Mapbox

Posted on 2013-04-102016-07-23 by Nat

Earlier this year I found a great excuse to get familiar with TileMill and MapBox hosting, and wound up creating this map:

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NASS CDL 2011 Data for Scott County

NASS Crop Data Layer

Posted on 2012-08-302013-07-04 by Nat

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).

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PLSLWD Interactive Map

PLSLWD Interactive Map

Posted on 2012-08-262013-07-04 by Nat

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.

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