data mining

Making Maps with Leaflet in R

I’ve been searching for a way to interactively display some geospatial data. After trying out a few things I found {leaflet} - so easy and beautiful! I started out reading this excellent primer, then got to work with specific examples.

USGS Data Retrieval

It took me a few times to get this right - the interface of the USGS website is a rabbit hole of buttons and options for data retrieval. It’s not so hard to get the data you’re interested in, but pay close attention because it’s easy to do the wrong thing.

Accessing Historical Weather Data with Dark Sky API

In my IoT class last year with Jay Ham we used a website called Dark Sky to get current weather conditions. I’ve been thinking about this recently, since I would like to see if I can match up weather conditions to the changes in the depth to water of wells at a site.