Tuesday, December 5, 2023

City planning, zoning, racism, and climate change

 

GEEDiT

GEEDiT is a tool built upon Google Earth Engine to "to allow users to rapidly access time series of full resolution satellite imagery from anywhere on the planet, and to manually digitise, review and export margin information." That's cool, but not all that unique these days.

Monday, December 4, 2023

Our Reddening Globe

Our Reddening Globe is pretty slick: you get a 3D rotating globe, two interactive global and regional time series, and an animation option to place 2023 into the context of 1880 to 2023. Here's the issue that I have: does something like that 'move-the-needle' at all? Sure, it's a cool data viz but it lacks something: a spark, a story - something that would turn this from just another data viz to something that could trigger an emotional response.

Saturday, December 2, 2023

The Coastline Paradox

The Coastline Paradox is not really a paradox, but rather a pretty slick visualization of sea level rise overlaid on Google Street View images from around the world. Nothing new here, but a cool visualization. The one problem here is that this 'only' shows normal sea level rise and not what happens when you add high tide, rainfall, and maye a storm surge - that's when the greatest impacts will occur.