Ian Villeda ian29

item	quantity	acquired?
avocados	12	✔
bacon	4	saturday
bagels	3 doz.	sunday morning
baguettes	2	sunday morning
butter	1	✔
cake	1	saturday/sunday
cheddar	1	saturday
cider	2	saturday/sunday

Issue #2: My color scheme isn’t that great. How do I make it better?

Making your color scheme systematic is probably the best way to get a good-looking palette. It's not pure science - so dont just plug in numbers, but structured relationships between colors definitely makes for a more pleasing map. You can use any number color functions available to CartoCSS. For categorized features, I like using spin(), for getting different hues but maintaining the exact same lightness and saturation.

As for data steps there a number of statistical + geographic approaches (jenks is popular, and QGIS will calculate this for you), but I think for non-scientific maps like these, it's really just about what represents the data most effectively at a glance - which is to say trial and error.

I used a quasi-log scale for my NYC building-size map, which you can checkout here: https://github.com/mapbox/reinv

	npm install > ursa-fail.log
	clang: error: invalid version number in '-mmacosx-version-min=10.9:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/i/.rvm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/i/.nvm/v0.8.26/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Users/i/.rvm/bin:/Users/i/.rvm/bin:/Users/i/.rvm/bin:/Users/i/.rvm/bin:/Users/i/.rvm/bin:/Users/i/.rvm/bin'
	make: *** [Release/obj.target/ursaNative/src/ursaNative.o] Error 1
	gyp ERR! build error
	gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
	gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.22/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
	gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
	gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12)
	gyp ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
	gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.22/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "build"

	~ (git::master) ▶ node -v
	v0.10.21
	~ (git::master) ▶ nvm install v0.8.26
	v0.8.26 is already installed.
	~ (git::master) ▶ nvm use v0.8.26
	Now using node v0.8.26
	~ (git::master) ▶ node -v
	v0.10.21

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	create table test2 (
	gid int,
	qs_adm0 text
	);
	SELECT AddGeometryColumn('public', 'test2', 'geom', 4326, 'MULTIPOLYGON', 2);

	insert into test2 (
	SELECT
	gid,
	qs_adm0,

	# !/bin/bash

	# make sure homebrew is up-to-date and install some stuff
	brew update
	brew install postgres \|\| brew upgrade postgres
	brew install postgis \|\| brew upgrade postgis

	# if you dont have brew on your path yet
	echo "export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile
	source ~/.bash_profile


	> [email protected] install /Users/i/tools/watchbot/node_modules/ursa
	> node-gyp configure build && node install.js

	CXX(target) Release/obj.target/ursaNative/src/ursaNative.o

	> sqlite3 qs-adm1.sqlite "select count(*) from data"
	> 666