Parameters of timeSeries.gif #1
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Regarding current status of the timeSeries.gif, as of this writing: all very good, except it's kind of boring to watch as it steps thru the dry season (from early September to mid-October), and then the interesting part (mid-late October) passes too quickly.
So: quick fix would be to reduce time-lapse of dry season somehow (to just a few days prior to first rains, perhaps?) and extend the remainder of series as far as possible, using most current data. I plan on doing another data collection round tomorrow afternoon, so these few days of dry weather following last Sunday's rain can be included.
The more elegant solution would be some sort of interface whereby user (i.e. me -or anyone besides checcomi :-) might set parameters, and generate the timeSeries.gif on demand, in such a way that it can be easily shared. I don't yet have a very good idea as to what this might look like... But two options i am playing with are:
- a JupyterLab Notebook like this one i did early in the project, only configured to run R code instead of Python, which is possible; and
- animated .gif hosting at Imgur.com or some such, as in this applied example.
Putting these two pieces together, we might arrive at a solution whereby a non-technical analyst such as myself could adjust parameters in the lab notebook easily enough (presuming the in-context (i.e. Markdown) documentation is good enough), and then sharing selected analyses out to a public site where they can be easily picked-up and reused in any form of media.