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An API, or application programming interface, is a pre-written set of code that helps you interact with somebody else’s information. Using APIs will give us the ability to programmatically obtain and parse data from sources like OpenWeatherMap, the US Census, and more. In this project I plotted Data Frames from the API data using Matplotlib. This is one of the ways that I was able to source outside data to use for my projects, and its a great opportunity to practice working with external data. When working with APIs - documentation is key! Each API I use has a different set of rules and guidelines and half the fun is learning all the features each one can provide. Using Python request, APIs, and JSON traversal to answer a fundamental question: "What's the weather like as we approach the equator?" In this project, I'll be creating a Python script to visualize the weather of 500+ cities across the world of varying distance from the equator. To accomplish this, I use a simple Python library, the OpenWeatherMap API, and a little common sense to create a representative model of weather across world cities. To assist in future vacation decisions, a heat map that displays the humidity for every city will be generated using the weather data, jupyter-gmaps, and Google Places API.

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Hi there 👋

I'm an IT people leader with a passion for data! 🔭 I’m currently working on growing my skills as a data analyst/scientist. 🌱 I have enjoyed learning Python, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas Matplotlib 📊 and API Interactions. Within my repositories I have applied modeling and forecasting statistics to analyse the data. I'm formiluar with PostgresSQL/pgAdmin, MongoDB, and ETL. I have utilizied HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, dashboarding, JavaScript charting 📈, and Geomapping with Leaflet.js, PowerBI, and Tableau to visualize the data. I am exposed to but in the early stages of learning with R Programming, Big Data Analytics with Hadoop, Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning, as well as Deep Learning. I have a intermediate knowledge of Excel since the world seems to love pivot tables and VBA Scripting. With all of that said sometimes I feel as if I've forgotten as much as I've learned but continue to remind myself that building your skillset takes 🕓 and that I need to pace myself. Life is a journey not a destination.

⚡ Fun fact: I enjoy ⛺ camping, trout fishing, and building my 4x4, ✈ travel, and 🏋working out. 📫 How to reach me: [email protected] 🐾 I have a dog named "Bobo" ✍ Contact me if you'd like to collaborate I'm open to new projects. 🌇 I live in the city but am from the 🌄 mountains. 🍂 Fall is my favoriate season. 🏍 I'm a retired MSF motorcycle ridercoach.