I saw this post by Ed Hawkins of a simple, compelling, and depressing visualization that shows the rapidly increasing global temperatures over the past century. Each vertical stripe in the "barcode" plots represents the temperature of a single year, ordered from the earliest available data to the present.
I wanted to use these as a desktop background, so I replicated the figures in R. I posted the code to my charts repository on Github.
Here are some of the versions I made:
I wanted to use these as a desktop background, so I replicated the figures in R. I posted the code to my charts repository on Github.
Here are some of the versions I made:
Contiguous U.S., annual average temperatures from 1895 - 2017, NOAA
Global, annual average temperatures from 1880 - 2018, NOAA
Global, annual average temperatures from 1880 - 2017, NASA
Data Sources:
NASA (2017) "Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)".
retrieved on May 26, 2018 from
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
NOAA National Centers for Environmental information, Climate
at a Glance: National Time Series, published May 2018,
retrieved on May 26, 2018 from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/
NASA (2017) "Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)".
retrieved on May 26, 2018 from
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
NOAA National Centers for Environmental information, Climate
at a Glance: National Time Series, published May 2018,
retrieved on May 26, 2018 from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/
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