Hello Readers,This week I am going to tell you a bit about datavisualisation. Datavisualisation is basically taking dry and difficult to interpret data (normally numbers) and using shapes, colours, movement and position to display them in a manner that makes the information easy for humans to read. For example to the right is a datavisualisation of the daily CO2 emissions of the Icelandic Volcano, Eyjafjallajoekull, compared to the planes that would have been flying if Eyjafjallajoekull wasn't erupting.
Before I had seen the datavisualisation, I thought that the Volcano would probably have a negative impact on the the atmosphere's CO2 levels, but seeing the datavisualisation allowed me to see a bigger picture of all the CO2 emissions that Eyjafjallajoekull is having an effect on including the planes it was stopping from taking off and therefore stopping from emitting CO2.
I got the image from: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/planes-or-volcano/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InformationIsBeautiful+%28Information+Is+Beautiful%29
Thank you for reading,
The Jumper Of Candle Sticks
