Squirrel Stories

A fun data experiment. Our small group looked at the very robust 2018 Central Park Squirrel Census, an incredible open dataset. We played with the data in a few ways, like creating a Voronoi diagram of the data mapped over Central Park:

But for this experiment, we looked at the Stories collected by the census takers. Since some of them were so wonderful, we created a fun game of allowing the user to choose if a squirrel story is real or AI-generated. We massaged the data exports with Pandas, got it into plain text and JSON. We then generated a list of static AI stories by feeding it into the OpenAI API.