This is a really interesting visualization. I love the density of the data and the way it captures the year over year variability by month while allowing the annual variability to plainly stand out. This is really good.
The color grading of the years is really bad. The last 20/30 years are all very low in contrast compared to each other, while 1940s and 60s are easy to tell apart, where it is least important. There are so many more colors than yellow/orange/brown, we can use them to get more information density.
Making data beautiful is what this community is about. But compromising readability for a color scheme is just annoying. Present data first, worry about it being extra pretty second.
We’re already looking at time being encoded differently than the usual horizontal axis, don’t make it harder.
On the other hand, if the purpose of the graph isn’t to present individual data points, but to present the monthly trends, then maybe it would have been OK, if the last 3 decades could have started over with a higher luminance set of colors. IDK but I think I would have used colors with more contrast and dropped the warm earthy theme.
Quite the contrary. I have a red-green deficiency (and so do about 6% of men). Viridis Color scale is pretty nice but two much colors are hard to read for a lot of people
We need to invent an image format that let’s chart colorw be tweaked after the fact lol
Actually, that’s a feature that was common going all the way back to the very earliest image file formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed_color
It’d be easy enough to make the chart a plain old GIF or indexed PNG; the only non-trivial part is that you’d need add some code to the page it’s embedded in to swap out the color palette. (You could also make it an SVG and manipulate it even more easily using the DOM.)
Well, the image format is based on indexed color for compression purposes … But it’s not like it calls out “these indexes should be customizable”.
I like this graph a lot. It’s different, beautiful and gives a good overview. The colors could have been slightly better though.
In a deep red area here. Talked to locals and they say our temperatures have always fluctuated and that this is just a cycle. I explained that the CO2 in the atmosphere has been climbing steadily and it is at the point it was 100,000 years ago, (actually it was 33 MILLION years) - their eyes glaze over.
this doesn’t add up, Jesus made the world 4,000 years ago
Don’t worry now we have AI stuff and it will solve all out problems
AI driven carbon sequestration Temperature reduction with neural networks deep learning
See? You can relax now, silicon valley tech and the invisible hand of capitalism will solve everything
nuke europe
Why Europe ?
cause we need more land and they did global warming anyway
(includes european settler states)
Who?
europe (including european settler states)
off the top of my head, USA, Canada, Israel and Australia but probably not New Zealand and South Africa.
Russia merits further discussion
Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia could also belong on the list
Took me more than a minute to realize that only 4 months of this year hold the record. Well, let’s wait for 2030
Edit: nope. Last 12 months indeed beat the records consequently . We’ll all soon die. The only good thing I can see from this graph is that the shift is even, meaning the seasons are still predictable.
The most recent months are the records, are they not? Yeah December 2024 doesn’t hold the record yet but it hasn’t happened yet. The most recent 12 months were the hottest
Visualization looks misleading then
Top right corner: “the most recent 12 months are highlighted”
We will probably be underwater in 2030.
I think that I should become a captain in a supertanker…
