Data Mining – Taylor Sly

US National Park API Guide – Python

By Taylor Sly | June 6, 2019March 11, 2023 by Taylor Sly

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…

Plotting Pokemon GO data with Python

By Taylor Sly | May 10, 2019March 11, 2023 by Taylor Sly

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…