Thanks Mike, I hope you will like it ;)

Interesting 🤔 That could work really well...

Totally, it is interactive and you could interact with it on a browser (not deployed yet).

I like that idea 😉

I was thinking about doing it like a coiled phone cable and animate it with a camera movement from the center.

Would love to see that actually 😛

Ohhh 😲

Hi Ian, do you have a picture of how the Climate Explorer does it? I curious to see how they have approached the issue 👀

Thanks Ed! Brilliant idea 🔥 I could animate the donuts over time to show warming trends. I’ll see how far back open-meteo.com goes. Do you know any other free datasets with long-term city-level climate records?

Exactly! Weird + challenging is where the good stuff happens 😅

Built in the new @observablehq desktop app, using @threejs

So here it is: my dumb data viz experiment. 🍩

✔️ Solves the continuity problem
❌ Harder to spot patterns
❌ Hours are visually distorted

But hey… not everything has to be practical, sometimes it’s just fun! 😅 Also: how cool would it be to create a physical object like this?

I came across those flat climate charts where x = day of year & y = hour of day. They’re neat, but the "cut" at January & midnight always felt arbitrary. 🤔
So I thought… what if we used a torus? The perfect loop for time & seasons!

Pretty cool indeed 😉

Thanks for the addition 🙏

Thanks for this idea! They do have some graphical skills, so this could be a great way to quickly create an original design based on data and then explore their own ways to physicalize it using a variety of materials.