Timetric’s New Graphing Tool
As the observant amongst you may have noticed from the last post, we have a new graphing tool on Timetric.
When we launched our private beta, we needed a graphing package quick-smart, so we bought-in a third-party solution to tide us over until we could find time to build our own.
Over the last month or so, we’ve been building a replacement from scratch, the results of which look a little something like:
Average surface temperature anomaly: Global (before smoothing)
For this initial release, the big changes are under the hood. We can now handle significantly larger data sets, up more than 20-fold from around 5000 points to over 100,000! (For the more technically-minded, this is largely due to the switch from interpreted Actionscript 2, to bytecode-compiled Actionscript 3.) We were also able to add a fun new feature: full-screen mode. While sounding rather frivolous, it’s actually surprising useful, especially when there are a lot of data points. To find it, right/ctrl-click on the graph.
Our overlay plots have also seen some attention. The biggest complaint we had for our old version was that when you overlaid series which varied on very different scales, you couldn’t really make anything out. Our new version supports multiple y-axes to make things better. Try click the check-box below!
ECB exchange rates: Euro vs. GBP and ECB exchange rates: Euro vs. USD and ECB exchange rates: Euro vs. JPY
As always, if you have any comments or suggestions, please get in touch!
“…subject to data and statistics”
We woke up to a new President of the United States this morning.
Barack Obama promised, in his inaugural speech,
We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do.
As we’re all (reformed) scientific researchers, that sounds fantastic to us. So, to celebrate, we’ve been busy importing data from the US government’s Environmental Protection Agency. We’ve been starting with global warming and emissions data, taken from the US Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report:
Graph: U.S. CO2 Emissions and Sinks (Tg CO2 Eq.): Transportation and U.S. CO2 Emissions and Sinks (Tg CO2 Eq.): Electricity Generation
but we’ll be adding the rest of that, and data from other EPA reports, soon. So you’ve got something to compare it with, we’ve also added UK emissions data from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; if there’s any other environmental data you’d like to see on Timetric, let us know!