Data has become so commonplace in our day-to-day life that we seldom
appreciate just how much information we collect on a daily basis. The challenge is not in compiling the data, however, but in how best to portray it in a way that allows us to distinguish between meaningful trends and insignificant noise. With the advent of the internet,
scores of websites have come online that deals with this problem in new and inventive ways, using data previously inaccessible to the general public. Whereas
before we could only visualise datasets through graphs or pictures, we can now interact with datasets, painting a much
more thorough and informative picture.
However, another problem is knowing how to find these websites. This post will overview just some of the free and readily available tools that
can be used to visualise climate change and weather statistics in an elegant
and engaging way.
