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Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023 (fediscience.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml

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Red indicates a higher average temperature than the previous year; blue the opposite.

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll complain even further. What is even pictures of ? And what is the horizontal axis?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought the horizontal axis was clear - it's each year. Each row is a decade

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, but what are the pictures? Are they supposed to show the geographical globe or are they pixels of each day of that year or something?

Sure, the overall point is very clear, but it's generally good practice to label everything. It's not that I don't believe the data, it's just... What am I even looking at?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's what I was originally saying. The image doesn't TELL us anything, just shows us colors

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's average annual temperature for that area compared to the average of 1961-1990.