While working on my project to find the shortest route to all US National Parks, I dealt with the US National Park API. It ended up that the information I needed was not easily accessible from the API, however I learned a lot and thought I would share. You can download the following Jupyter notebook from my GitHub. Accessing the US National Park API in Python Accessing the US National Park API in Python¶ The…
I wanted to brush up on my Python plotting skills in a fun way. Since I’ve been playing Pokemon Go recently, I decided to make a plot using data from the game. After a few iterations and even some OpenCV work, I decided that the following plot was the best solution. Even though the above plot is probably the most useful, my favorite plot is the one where each bar is colored based on each…
It has been a while since I’ve programmed in Python. I want to refresh my knowledge of the programming language while also answering a question that I have: What is the shortest route to all of the US National Parks? Answering this question will help me efficiently accomplish my dream of visiting all of the National Parks in the United States. Okay, so, how to begin? Well we’ve already asked a question, but we need…