Shane Evanson's Work Report - spatial-data-discovery/sdd-2021 GitHub Wiki

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History:

Oct 13th, 2021:

  • Disc 7 (Sparse data challenge discussion) submitted

Oct 12th, 2021:

  • Completed the Sparse Data Challenge together with Caroline Wall

Oct 10th, 2021:

  • Sandbox Challenge 4 submitted as "sb4_shaneevanson"

Oct 8th, 2021:

  • Quiz 5

Oct 6th, 2021:

  • Disc 5 (was completed previously, in-class, as a group)
  • Disc 6

Sept 27th, 2021:

  • Celebrated the Feast Day of Saint Vincent de Paul
  • Quiz 4 completed
  • Sandbox 2 completed
  • Sandbox 3 completed

Sept 21st 2021:

  • Disc 4

Sept 19th, 2021:

  • Completed Disc 3, by reviewing another person's utility script
  • Completed Quiz 3

Sept 14th, 2021:

  • Created Utility Script
  • Created Podcast
  • Finished about page (for now)

Sept 11th, 2021:

Question of the Week:
  1. Spatial data is useful, information-dense, and when assembled into a nice chart or image, even beautiful. If we didn't have maps, we would quite literally be lost. If it weren't for our satellites in the sky, we wouldn't know just how devastating deforestation has been in the Amazon rainforest. If it weren't for our vast social networks, news (and fake news...) about COVID wouldn't have spread nearly as fast. Spatial data is just, so important, that I really don't think we could live without it.
  2. Going back to my discussion 1 "interest" topic - I was interested in a visualization of cryptocurrency adoption across the world. Potential difficulties in gathering the data aside, this is obviously a spatial data set, since, if I were to conglomerate this data set, the end goal would be to produce a world-map (Probably a Mercator projection) with every country tinted different colors based on their level of adoption.

Sept 7th, 2021:

  • Completed Quiz 1
  • Completed Quiz 2
  • Completed Disc 1
  • Completed Disc 2

Sept 4th, 2021:

  • Completed Sandbox Challenge 1 by adding my name to the contributors list, and submitting a wee little Python script that adds stuff together
    • The python script prompts for the user to input two floats, and if the user does input valid floats, then it continues, and prints the sum of the two inputs.
  • Created my work report on the wiki... which is what you're looking at right now