{"id":1576,"date":"2018-05-13T20:20:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T03:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2018-05-13T20:20:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T03:20:48","slug":"earth-temperature-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/earth-temperature-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Temperature Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/2016-was-the-hottest-year-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\">2016 was Earth&#8217;s hottest year on record<\/a> \u2014 which was true in 2014 and 2015 as well, so it&#8217;s been in the news repeatedly. (Most recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news\/noaa-2017-was-3rd-warmest-year-on-record-for-globe\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2017 was the third-hottest<\/a>.) This is a somewhat complicated dataset because different agencies measure in slightly different ways, but the trends and conclusions are consistent.<\/p>\n<p>Explore these three different ways of visualizing this data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/01\/18\/science\/earth\/2016-hottest-year-on-record.html\" target=\"_blank\">How 2016 Became Earth\u2019s Hottest Year on Record<\/a> (NYT)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/hottest-year-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Hoax: 2016 Was the Hottest Year on Record<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1732\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Timeline of Earth&#8217;s Average Temperature<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which of the three visualizations about Earth&#8217;s record temperature do you consider most effective, and why? Which one do you think Edward Tufte would like best, based on his design principles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion activity comparing three approaches to the same dataset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}