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Fork of Temperature in Different Cities

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SsmileHorse
Last edited Jun 25, 2022
Created on Jun 25, 2022

This visualization presents one week of hourly temperature readings from seven cities as small multiples of area charts, using a facet row for each city. It demonstrates a flawed design: color encodes city but repeats per facet, making it meaningless, and the filled area under the temperature curve suggests no quantitative significance, hindering cross-city comparison. The chart is built with Vega-Lite’s specification (v2), rendered via `vegaEmbed`, while `d3.csv` fetches the sensor data from the Sense Your City project.

AI-generated description

Small multiples area chart for one week in 2015.

This is an example of how not to visualize data:

  • Color is meaningless
  • Area under the curve is meaningless
  • It's difficult to compare across area charts

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Also related - Vega-Lite GitHub Issue: Specify Label Width for Facet

Data: a week of rich sensor data collected by the "Sense Your City" project.

Contains:

  • Hourly readings for one week
  • Different cities: San Francisco, Bangalore, Boston, Geneva, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Singapore
  • Various mertics from sensors: temperature, light, air quality, sound, humidity, dust

The data was collected from the (now defunct) Data Canvas - Sense Your City Project. The data was filtered using the data processing script found in GitHub: curran/data/senseYourCity.

MIT Licensed

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