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EngagingData OP t1_jdih22s wrote

Here is the link to my original interactive visualization that is updated daily

After making my California Reservoirs dashboard marimekko graph, I decided to make a similar Colorado river reservoir page. The Lower Colorado water is used in Southern California and Arizona.

The area of each rectangle shows the total volume of the reservoir in thousands of acre feet (kaf). The blue section shows how much of the capacity is full. You can see the two main reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell are not in good shape relative to their normal historical levels.

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Data Sources and ToolsThe data on water storage comes from the US Bureau of Reclamation's Lower Colorado River Water Operations website. Historical reservoir levels comes from the water-data.com website. Python is used to extract the data and wrangle the data in to a clean format, using the Pandas data analysis library. Visualization was done in javascript and specifically the D3.js visualization library.

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jadero t1_jdifney wrote

I know that there are jurisdictions that are moving to abolish cheques, but I don't see how it's retro to use a cheque when the terminals are down.

I think it was just last year that a Rogers outage took down most payment terminals across Canada for a couple of days. The local (rural) businesses just did business as usual, except that instead of one or two cheques a day, it was all cheques, all day.

We still use cheques regularly because seasonal and farm-based businesses and lack of internet make cheques the only viable way to conduct business. It's not like I'm going to run to the city to take out the cash I'd need.

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blujaey t1_jdibggh wrote

I commented on the last post mentioning the colour-blind issue and just saw you replied to that! Obviously ideally you'd always want to pick colours that reflect something in the dimensions (trophy logos in this case) as you did in the original post, but from my perspective this is great. Solid colour picks and very easy to distinguish. Nice one 🏆

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