diff --git a/_posts/2019-05-29-how-big-are-the-national-parks.md b/_posts/2019-05-29-how-big-are-the-national-parks.md index e914cfc54dccf..b13d9875a513c 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-05-29-how-big-are-the-national-parks.md +++ b/_posts/2019-05-29-how-big-are-the-national-parks.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post title: How big are the national parks? -date: 29-5-2019 +date: 29-05-2019 tags: national-park-service --- @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ An interactive version of the map that will tell you the park name and size in a The largest national park is Wrangell-St. Elias in Alaska at 8.3 million acreas (13,004 square miles) and the smallest is Gateway Arch in Missouri at 193 acres (.3 square miles).* Those Alaska parks are huge! 7 of the top 10 largest parks are in Alaska. The largest park in the lower 48 is Death Valley National Park in California, number 5 overall, at 3.4 million acres (5,270 square miles). -*Gateway Arch National Park protects a manmade object built in the 1960s, and while a notable historic object, perhaps does not fulfill the mission of the national park designation to protect areas of natural signifigance. [Not everyone agreed](https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2018/03/whats-name-gateway-arch-national-park) with the designation of the arch as a national park in 2018. +*Gateway Arch National Park protects a manmade object built in the 1960s, and while a notable historic object, perhaps does not fulfill the mission of the national park designation to protect areas of natural signifigance. [Not everyone agreed](https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2018/03/whats-name-gateway-arch-national-park){:target="_blank"} with the designation of the arch as a national park in 2018. The average (mean) national park size is ~856,000 acres (1,338 square miles) and the median is ~221,000 acres (346 square miles). Because the median is so much smaller than the mean, we can tell that the data is skewed to the right, or exhibits positive skew. Let's take a look at this in a histogram of the data. diff --git a/_posts/2019-06-12-how-many-visitors-to-the-national-parks.md b/_posts/2019-06-12-how-many-visitors-to-the-national-parks.md index 3c158865bbbe8..7a2a8aeff9304 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-06-12-how-many-visitors-to-the-national-parks.md +++ b/_posts/2019-06-12-how-many-visitors-to-the-national-parks.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post title: How many people visit the national parks? -date: 12-6-2019 +date: 12-06-2019 tags: national-park-service --- @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ With the data that the NPS makes available, we can't determine how many unique v The map below marks the location of each national park with a circle of size relative to the number of visits to that park in 2018. -An interactive version of the map that will tell you the park name and number of visits in 2018 when you hover over the circles is found [here]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/20190612_visit_map_national_parks.html){:target="_blank"}. +An interactive version of the map that will tell you the park name and number of visits in 2018 when you hover over the circles is found [here]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/04_visit_map_national_parks.html){:target="_blank"}. ![Map image]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/04_visit_map_national_parks.png){:target="_blank"} *The map was created using the Python library, [Folium](https://python-visualization.github.io/folium/){:target="_blank"}*