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alexkapps / nbi_sample.csv
Created March 18, 2016 22:09 — forked from jonahadkins/nbi_sample.csv
nbi sample data
We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: It looks like row 6 should actually have 24 columns, instead of 2 in line 5.
STATE_CODE_001,STRUCTURE_NUMBER_008,COUNTY_CODE_003,FEATURES_DESC_006A,latitude,longitude,OWNER_022,FUNCTIONAL_CLASS_026,YEAR_BUILT_027,ADT_029,YEAR_ADT_030,OPEN_CLOSED_POSTED_041,STRUCTURE_TYPE_043B,OPR_RATING_METH_063,OPERATING_RATING_064,INV_RATING_METH_065,INVENTORY_RATING_066,YEAR_RECONSTRUCTED_106,PERCENT_ADT_TRUCK_109,FUTURE_ADT_114,YEAR_OF_FUTURE_ADT_115,SUFFICIENCY_RATING,lat_decimal_degrees,lon_decimal_degrees
22,AFLAAWUB06103 ,15,Macks Bayou ,32313200,934032238,72,14,1998,2000,2008,P,1,0,32.4,0,32.4,0.0,5,6500,2030,92.5,32.5255555556,93.6755555556
55,P48005000000000,95,APPLE RIVER ,45272460,921849800,3,9,1978,440,1998,P,1,1,34.0,1,22.7,0.0,0,440,2031,84.2,45.4566666667,92.3136111111
26,13699,3,WERNERS CREEK ,46095980,870402900,21,9,1922,5,2013,A,2,8,55.7,8,43.1,1980.0,0,6,2033,48.0,46.1663888889,87.0672222222
18, 1IN3365,101,Turkey Creek ,38510620,867475990,73,9,2003,600,2008,A,19,1,54.4,1,32.6,0.0,10,650,2029,98.6,38.8516666667,87.2541666667
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alexkapps / 0_reuse_code.js
Created July 8, 2014 17:48
Here are some things you can do with Gists in GistBox.
// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console
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alexkapps / NK_Blog_draft.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:03 — forked from ianschuler/NK_Blog_draft.md

##Visualizing North Korea's Worst Drought in Decades

The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) is experiencing its worst drought in over a decade. According to reports, some areas have experienced 70 days without rain as well as the lowest rainfall levels since 1961. As food shortages are already a problem for North Korea, the damage that this drought will likely cause for harvests is cause for serious alarm. Food shortages in the 1990s led to an estimated million deaths.

We used satellite data to measure what areas are most impacted by the drought. We examined MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data to evaluate current vegetation levels across the country as a proxy for drought. The map below shows the difference between current vegetation le