Surf Data 1 - Geospatial Analysis

[note; this was pulled from an old website and interactive plots were removed, due to limitations of Google Sites]

Since February 5th, 2017, I have logged every single surf session. As of December 14th, 2020, there are 843 surf sessions recorded. I am going to begin a series of visualizations using this large personal dataset. I have been adding more and more parameters to the dataset since the start but two parameters have been tracked since day 1: the date and the location.  For this first post, I performed a simple geospatial analysis by plotting the location I surfed, where the radius and color are based on the number of times I surfed that spot. To do this, I manipulated the data in Python and exported a .csv containing the location, spot name, and occurrence value for every session. Next, I imported the data into kepler.gl and used their software to visualize my data. Below are the results.

Additionally, using Kepler.gl, I made an animation visualizing the surf spots I frequented as time passed. The same temporal range was used: Feb 5th, 2017 to Dec 14th, 2020.