Comments on: 2011 ISRSE Wrap-up http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2011/05/06/2011-isrse-wrap-up/?src=elegantfigures-rss On data visualization and information design on the Earth Observatory. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:40:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark from Epic Graphic http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2011/05/06/2011-isrse-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-28610 Mark from Epic Graphic Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:55:16 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=331#comment-28610 I’ve been meaning to respond to this for a while (the call for suggestions at the end that is). I love the posts you did on ‘Qualitative v Sequential Colour Scales’ and A ‘Hierarchy of Perception’, so would really like to see some more in a similar vein.

Some ideas I had included:
How to select the appropriate visualisations (and/or perhaps some examples of when inappropriate choices have been made)

Statistical significance and how it relates to visualisation

And perhaps maybe a critique of some classic visualisations like the London Underground or the Periodic table (could even be some geographical or astronomical visualisations).

Just a few thoughts. I could try come up with some more.

]]> By: Kian http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2011/05/06/2011-isrse-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-12119 Kian Fri, 13 May 2011 06:39:56 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=331#comment-12119 The same issue is happening within two of the most ecologically important lakes within Iran. One is located in the southern Fars Province named Bakhtegan lake (and the adjacent Tashk lake), and the other one, Urmia lake on the border between the Western and the Eastern Azerbayjan provinces. Bakhtengan and Tashk lakes has almost been dried out completely last year as the combined results of the dams built upstream on the rivers (i.e. Doroodzan Dam) carrying snowmelt water from Zagros Mountains into the lake, as well as drought which is the other highly influential factor.

However, regarding the Urmia lake the diverted river systems are the main accounting factor as drought and reduced rainfall has not essentially affected that part of the country. Once dried out, the salty basin of the lake would deteriorate the whole region’s climate, as the resulting effects have already been started, some southern parts of the lake turn red during summer as the result of high concentration of Magnesium salts.

]]> By: corey http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2011/05/06/2011-isrse-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-11277 corey Tue, 10 May 2011 00:51:38 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=331#comment-11277 Not exactly the the same, but the only ones I could find:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/pdffiles.html

]]> By: Robert Simmon http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2011/05/06/2011-isrse-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-11276 Robert Simmon Mon, 09 May 2011 18:48:09 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=331#comment-11276 Corey:
Excellent idea. Do you know where (or if) the NOAA weather maps are available as postscript of PDF files? I’d be able to edit them for a before/after comparison.

]]> By: corey http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2011/05/06/2011-isrse-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-11257 corey Sun, 08 May 2011 21:40:47 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=331#comment-11257 >>so if you have a suggestion, please drop a note in the comments.
I’d be interested in some more design case studies similar those posted last year — take bad plots/maps and show how to make them better. For instance, the following from NOAA:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/sfc/90fbw.gif

Similarly, I feel color-enhanced GOES imagery is overly complicated and not clear or readable:
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/WCIR3.html

Given the same data and goals, how would you present it?

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