"Find your ideal climate"
As long as it's in the US.
Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
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#172Fantastic project! I have no idea how feasible this is given the available data, but would be great to see it expanded to other continents.
Also apparently the ideal place for me to live in America would be in a national park/forest. Time to change careers I guess.
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#173Hi all! Some background on the project: I want to build a house someday, and the first step is deciding where to build. I knew an interactive map like this would be useful, but after fiddling with leaflet.js for a while and googling for climate data, I felt a bit lost. So I decided to try something new: I hired a contractor on Upwork who had experience with map visualizations. They built an MVP within a few weeks, an…
Really great! In addition to humidity which others have mentioned, average sunny days per year might be another good metro. From a temperature standpoint it looks like Seattle is ideal for me, but I’m fairly certain I couldn’t handle that few sunny days.
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#174I like data like this - it reminds me of the pleasant places maps[1]. That said - you have to be wary of both types of maps because it doesn't take into account other potentially annoying factors. The biggest being humidity - there's a huge difference between 90 degree phoenix and 90 degree miami. Then there's rainfall, and one a lot of people don't think about - wind. To add - if you're thinking about seriously comp…
Has anyone made a map of "unpleasant" day-time hours?
I don't need the weather to be ideal - as long as it's not rainy, the high is below 40, and it's a wet bulb with no wind - that works for me.
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#175"Your ideal climate is Kiev!"
Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
#176Hi all! Some background on the project: I want to build a house someday, and the first step is deciding where to build. I knew an interactive map like this would be useful, but after fiddling with leaflet.js for a while and googling for climate data, I felt a bit lost. So I decided to try something new: I hired a contractor on Upwork who had experience with map visualizations. They built an MVP within a few weeks, an…
This sounds super cool! I'm currently in grad school in an entirely different subject, but I have experience in (spacial) data vis and web scraping. I've used it for some side projects probably few people would find interesting, but that help me in my daily lives. Would upwork potentially enable me to do similar work for clients? Does anyone have any recommendations?
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#177Since my job allows me to work remotely, I based a large part of my decision to move by states that were in grow zone 6 and above in the US. I have a pretty good idea of where all those places are now. Surprisingly depending on where you are in the States, moving down one state south doesn’t change the weather appreciably
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#178Awesome! Would you consider adding humidity, days of sunshine, and something like number of natural disasters?
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fortunately the insanity of "standard" units has everyone used to memorizing silly facts like boiling is 212 and there are 5280 feet in a mile. If you're used to that, it's easy to remember that C = (F-32) * 9 / 5.
What's so special about the boiling point of water?
defining a scale using the two transition points of a common naturally-occurring substance which is crucial to life and chemical processes makes a lot of sense.
Using a random human’s body temperature and a strange random mixture of chemicals as scale points does not make any sense. Might as well pick a random hot day and a random cold day and use that.
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#180What about humidity? The colors make San Diego and Houston look similar, but one is much more humid than the other.