In August, 2019, I made my final border crossing on an incredible road trip across Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Crossing from Stanstead, Québec to Derby Line, Vermont went so quickly and smoothly it was nothing more than an afterthought. My focus was on making it to the Haskell […]
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When you think of Australia, the first thing that probably comes to mind is The Land Down Under, kangaroos, or koalas. A country that’s well-known for its warm hospitality and top-notch adventures, Australia attracts visitors from all over the world. As wild as Australia’s frontiers can be, its also has […]
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The spread of disinformation and fake news seems like it’s about as American as apple pie these days. As a data scientist, it’s beyond horrifying watching so much disinformation rip through every facet of our society like wildfire. Sure, you grow to expect it from the idiots on the internet. […]
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Several weeks ago, you learned how to create stunning maps without a GIS program. You created a map of a hurricane’s cone of uncertainty using Python’s GeoPandas library and an ESRI Shapefile. Then you created a map of major tornadoes to strike various parts of the United States during the […]
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In today’s media rich world, integrating video into your business or marketing strategy is not optional. It’s a requirement. Video has rapidly become the go-to medium for many companies’ marketing strategy, and it continues to explode in popularity. Even if you’re not a running a business or organization, you can […]
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Ever since my days as a coaching assistant for the Eckerd College Sailing Team, I have used influential quotes from people I admire to help shape my philosophies. It was originally limited to quotes from sports legends that backed my coaching philosophy. People like Michael Jordan, Yogi Berra, Mohammed Ali, […]
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We are exposed to color theory every single day of our lives. Most of the time, we don’t think twice about it. However, did you know that judgements of your credibility are 75% based on the design of your website? First impressions are 94% related to the look and design […]
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the most fascinating countries in the world, with a deeply troubled past. Anthony Bourdain once called it “the most relentlessly fucked over nation in the world”, and also realized a decades long dream when he sailed down the Congo River. If […]
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Last week, using Python GeoPandas, we generated two simple geographic maps from an ESRI Shapefile. After plotting a simple map of the 32 Mexican States, we then layered several shapefiles together to make a map of the Cone of Uncertainty for Hurricane Dorian as she brushed the coast of Florida, […]
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Python is the world’s third most popular programming language. It’s also one of the most versatile languages available today. Not surprisingly, Python has incredible potential in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). That potential has only barely begun to get tapped with libraries like GeoPandas. In the past, we’ve […]
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As I sit down to write this, it’s dawning on me that this article would have been much more appropriate in May, 2020 instead of May, 2021, but I digress. Even though the world is starting to open back up, it will still be a while before we can travel […]
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Nearly 15 months ago, we made the painful, but necessary decision to indefinitely suspend all travel operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But I remember the 10th of March, 2020 like it was yesterday. Just two weeks earlier, I had returned from what would be my final pre-pandemic photography trip […]
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