I wanted to make a simple climate model from scratch, so I took some of the data that's available and created one. I've written up the process in detail here for anyone who wants to do something similar and have created a simple tool using this that you can play with here. Note that I am cross-posting this from another website I run called CityProjections since it fit with the theme of this blog.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/ is a politics subreddit, and I thought it might be fun to estimate the relative share of the news cycle each candidate took up there this past election season. Spoiler before I start:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ is a subreddit where people make graphs of various things, and I was curious what languages/tools are most popular there so I tried a crude estimation and it worked out reasonably well. Here's the spoilers before I start:

I've done this a few times and it's actually much easier than it might seem. An example of a real site I maintain that I did this with is CityProjections. Most of the site is hosted on hostgator and I use blogger for the blog on it because I was too lazy to write my own content management system and I like blogger more than wordpress. Maybe interesting to note that I'm actually using a default template for the page you're viewing right now. I've switched to a custom template since writing this article.

Another thing I needed to do but couldn't find a great description of through googling...