Tracking Climate Change
From 2001 to 2004 I was in a lot of eye pain and for some reason I got obsessed with giving every day a pain level and tracking it and charting it. This eventually led to wanting to create a radial heat map of it with onion-skin years. I was jettisoned from the place that was making my pain worse but the idea for a radial heat map persisted, this time to track climate. In 2024 I finally was able to (largely) vibe code something in d3.js JavaScript that pulls climate data data from Meteostat and charts it. It's not close to finished but far enough along to show people.
The chart below tracks the high temperature of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska USA from 1915-2026
The concentric circles are years, the outermost the current year. The charts with tons of data don't include the year labeling.
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