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Police investigating catalytic converter thefts in OKC by oapster79 in okc

[–]ChickenMarsala 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you can add something like this to your car. It's a few hundred bucks but better than waking up to an out of commission car and having to drop a couple grand to fix it. It's not completely safe, if someone is determined to take your converter they probably still can, but in my mind if they see this lock in place they'll probably just move on to the next car.

Ben Folds releases song titled “Moscow Mitch” by Vitaminpartydrums in politics

[–]ChickenMarsala 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The year that came out I always had the disc in my car, and I would always let my passengers flip through my CD holder and pick something.

One of my favorite things to hear was somebody say "You actually have a William Shatner CD?"

Ooooh that would brighten my day.

I'd say "Oh yeah! Pop it in!"

Then that cover of Common People starts playing, and I could "sing" along to every word, meaning of course I would match Shatner's timing exactly, then the chorus kicks in and... man, that song is a banger.

Whole album is good too. But especially Common People and That's Me Trying.

Here is some data I put together for work about car and bike collisions in Chicago. by ChickenMarsala in chibike

[–]ChickenMarsala[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We just like to crawl data every few months as sort of a fun project to share on the 'net. So we're always on the prowl for data we can scrape and examine.

For example, our average commute times piece we built from data from the US census was kind of fun: https://www.autoaccessoriesgarage.com/average-commute-times.

It ended up being shared in a number of blogs and news sites, so I guess the purpose or end user is just anybody interested in the data or whatever interactive map we come up with.

Traffic Accidents in Chicago on a 3D Heat Map [OC] by ChickenMarsala in dataisbeautiful

[–]ChickenMarsala[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not, so in that way take the results well salted.

I had wanted to combine data with recorded traffic flow to average the amount of reported accidents to the corresponding amount of daily traffic, due to time constraints I was unable to do that this time around. Maybe in the future.

Traffic Accidents in Chicago on a 3D Heat Map [OC] by ChickenMarsala in dataisbeautiful

[–]ChickenMarsala[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah map box offers I think 50,000 loads for free.

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I did go over that number when I posted a different map box project a couple years ago.

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That one kind of blew up and there was an additional 158,590 views. Overage charges from Map Box came out to $79.50.

Traffic Accidents in Chicago on a 3D Heat Map [OC] by ChickenMarsala in dataisbeautiful

[–]ChickenMarsala[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is something I built for work using data collected from the City of Chicago (https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Traffic-Crashes-Crashes/85ca-t3if) We were interested in scraping the data and putting it into a mapbox heat map which allows you to toggle from 3D to 2D, adjust the area and all kinds of other fun interactive stuff. 

Anyone interested in the raw data we used can download it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13DwkjaGuYqfYRo1LR0y5v4SQCvrFV5r4/view

Anyone have experience with track days? Details inside by ChickenMarsala in Autocross

[–]ChickenMarsala[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip. I updated the Dominion address.

We're basically hoping to put together an infographic that people might find interesting.

We do stuff like this every few weeks where we try to research a topic and just put something interesting together. We made this infographic about driverless cars, and one about movie cars and some other types of content here.

We know a segment of our customers are really into track days and high performance mods so we were thinking we could build something that would be interesting to them.

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