These are almost like flags. Especially so you could select the colourmap based on the countries national flag.
Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”
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#42This reminds me of an art installation at the university in Trondheim, Norway. It's using a glass ball as a lens to burn holes in a tin plate. Every year the tin plate is changed and displayed on the wall inside the university. https://www.trondheim.no/en/art/art-in-public-spaces/art-sun...
There's a similar work in San Francisco: A solar totem by Charles Sowers
https://www.sfartscommission.org/our-role-impact/press-room/...
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#43Would it be possible to animate this over time to visualize the impact of global warming?
You wouldn't be able to visualize the impact of global warming with this data/representation. Global warming is roughly 1 degree celcius over the past couple hundred years, as a global average. This visualization only shows temperatures in 6 degree increments in specific locations. The historical data in many locations probably isn't even enough to capture that 1 degree average change, and there would be so much noise from "random" variations in local climates that there would be no way to accurately draw any conclusions from such a visual representation. If you want to see visualizations of the impact of global warming, I'd recommend the visualizations based on research-backed models on https://picturing.climatecentral.org/
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious. What do the hosting costs & tech stack looks like? I'm assuming you're mostly just serving some static content & some server costs to generate the images periodically? Is there anything else?
Every page & image (they’re all embedded SVGs) is generated from scratch using raw data on every request - with the number of languages and units supported it gets quite unwieldy when pre-generating (we had a mediocre experience w that on statisticalatlas.com). In order to render in a timely fashion the sections & graphs are rendered in parallel on a decent sized instance.
A middle ground could just be adding some caching?
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#45I think that it would be much more readable if they inverted the x and y axes...
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#46I like the way that this site lets you compare "pleasantness" of climates, e.g. humidity + temperature etc year round.
This makes me wonder, where in the world has the objectively "best" climate? Comfortable or warm all year round, not too humid, not too windy, lots of sun.
Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”
#47This reminds me of an art installation at the university in Trondheim, Norway. It's using a glass ball as a lens to burn holes in a tin plate. Every year the tin plate is changed and displayed on the wall inside the university. https://www.trondheim.no/en/art/art-in-public-spaces/art-sun...
Cool! Are there any pictures available of the tin plate after the year is completed?
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#48Very cool. Reiterate other's comments that mouse-over a fingerprint showing a hover would be great.
When clicking a fingerprint, the next page should prominently show the fingerprint, burying it in the page, especially when it isn't obviously a long scroll page, made it hard to find.
Please consider inverting "Spring" etc for Southern Hemisphere, as currently it has a _very_ Northern centric view of the world.
Thanks!
Re: Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”
#49This reminds me of an art installation at the university in Trondheim, Norway. It's using a glass ball as a lens to burn holes in a tin plate. Every year the tin plate is changed and displayed on the wall inside the university. https://www.trondheim.no/en/art/art-in-public-spaces/art-sun...
Cool! Are there any pictures available of the tin plate after the year is completed?
They are hanging on the walls of Realfagsbygget ("STEM-building") at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Best picture I could find: https://koro.no/content/uploads/2020/04/55-417x550.jpg (some of them not burned yet)
From the end of the long album here: https://koro.no/prosjekter/ntnu-trondheim-norges-teknisk-nat...
My favorite art installation in that building is a huge Foucault pendulum. Always had to wait for it to knock over a peg when walking past.
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#50Please add celcius to the scale
EDIT: it can be changed at the top right