Uwappa

I love it how Aboriginal paintings depict a whole story.

Good graphs can also tell a story, as Edward Tufte describes in his books on data visualization.

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  Daily Sea Surface Temperatures 60S-60N 1979-2023

This Copernicus graph is a jewel. It is a graph that tells a whole story in an instant.

The blue, white, red lines are like waves of an ocean. The colours seem to show increasing temperature, yet actually show time, decades of data. Time and temperature coincide.

2023 jumps out of the waves, is out of bandwidth. Oceans are warming.

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  A Péguy climograph shows average temperature and precipitation of a climate per month.
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  Change of climate and its impact, with red for impossible agriculture.
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  120 years of climate change in Paris.
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  Climate change in Paris 1881-2000.
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  Impact

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  The 20 year average is expected to cross +1.5 °C in 2033.
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  In 2000 the tipping point was expected in 2045. In 2023 the expectation was 2033.

This chart tells the story of an election or poll. What are the changes since the previous election?

 

new party.

  

party that gained seats.

 

party maintained seats, did not win, did not lose.

  

Party lost seats. The top of   is the result in the previous election.

 

party lost all seats.