Visualizing CO2 Rise

I had a lot of feelings trying to work through this assignment.

Going into this week’s deliverable I was feeling really good about my general understanding of how coding works. When the semester first started, I didn’t even have a framework for understanding what coding meant, it was all very mysterious. However, I really appreciate that ultimately, it’s just a series of rules and directions and there are, at this level of coding anyway, tangible answers for any roadblocks I may come across (although &&, || threw off my feelings that it all makes total sense.

Thanks to my classmate (Zoe) I was able to export the dataset you shared with us as a .CSV and load it into p5.js. I spent a lot of time watching the videos you shared and trying to practice each little piece as I learned it. For full transparency though, I really struggled with this assignment. I tried to take it piece by piece and correlate the specific takeaway from each video into the assignment, but I got really stuck.

Once I had the data loaded, I knew I had to remove the -99.99 value as it wasn’t meaningful data to include. I was proud that I found the “Find” button under the “Edit” drop-down menu and manually removed each of the -99.99 numbers. However, at that point, I was having trouble with how to actually connect that data with any meaningful output for running code and realized maybe I had messed up the overall dataset by removing -99.99 when maybe there needed to be a placeholder there?

I spent time talking with Mary Beth as she was able to put the pieces together for what code should be included to create a visualization for this assignment. I am now working through that code and connecting it back to the videos to see how it applies for future assignments – so I’m sort of learning it in reverse. I’m hoping more practice with the pieces leading up to what was required for this most recent assignment will help me internalize it better for future application. I do however miss getting to create visualizations with other mediums like we did for the Giorgia Lupi project. Perhaps we can circle back to some of those styles?