Visualizing Climate Data

Visualizing Climate Data

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Welcome to a special Earth Day Coding Challenge!

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Welcome to a special Earth Day Coding Challenge!

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Visualizing Climate Data

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  1. 1 Welcome to a special Earth Day Coding Challenge!
  2. 2 What is a temperature anomaly?
  3. 3 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies website
  4. 4 Preview the data
  5. 5 Upload the data
  6. 6 Use loadTable to preload the data
  7. 7 Check out the data
  8. 8 Set up the base pattern
  9. 9 Polar Coordinates
  10. 10 Add the month labels
  11. 11 Time for the data!
  12. 12 Draw the spiral
  13. 13 Set up global variables
  14. 14 Map the x, y positions to the data
  15. 15 Loop through all of the data
  16. 16 Check for null values
  17. 17 Animate the spiral
  18. 18 Add one month at a time
  19. 19 Add color to the spiral
  20. 20 Connect the points with a line segment
  21. 21 Use lerpColor to vary color
  22. 22 Use parseFloat to convert a string to a float
  23. 23 We have the climate spiral
  24. 24 Suggestions for possible variations
  25. 25 Outro

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