Graphics
Where numbers become graphics. Animated charts, sparklines, heatmaps and editorial visualisations. Some lift live data from the projects, others are new studies. All with the same goal: make data felt before it is read.
- Live
Weather & Seeing
Four animated charts: cloud cover, seeing index, surface wind, wind profile. Live data from Open-Meteo for Zurich, lifted from the Astrophotal weather dashboard.
- Live
Climate Line
146 years of global temperature anomalies as one animated line. NASA GISS data, against a pre-industrial mean, with key moments marked.
- Live
Extinction Curve
Five centuries of documented extinctions as a cumulative stacked bar chart. 40 species across six taxa, 1500 to today.
- Live
Biomass
Four charts on the biomass distribution of life on Earth. Plants dominate, animals are a sliver, and within the mammals humans plus livestock make up 96%.
- Live
Water Footprint
Four charts on the water footprint of food and consumer goods. From a cup of coffee to a kilo of beef to one pair of jeans.
- Live
Carbon Budget
Where the world's CO₂ comes from, who emits it, and how much room is left before 1.5°C and 2°C. Four unusual chart types, all on Global Carbon Budget 2024 numbers.
- Live
Aurora Spiral
94 years of the Earth's geomagnetic mood on a single spiral. One ring per year, one segment per five days, coloured by maximum Kp.
More graphic studies land here over time.