Local climate data visualization application
Posted by truthclimate@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 12 comments
Hey guys! I’ve been working on a climate data visualization website where you can look at location-based historical climate data.
What it does:
- Visualizes local climate trends (temperature, precipitation, and more to come) with charts
- Shows comparisons of recent and historical time periods
- Provides location-based climate insights
Besides that, there are more features planned, e.g. more metrics, monthly/weekly-based climatology, city comparisons, file export, etc.
Current status: Very limited pre-release with initial core features working. I need put more work into the backend, the data and overall user experience.
What I'm looking for:
- General feedback on the concept
- hopefully this month, I will need beta testers who are willing to use the site and report bugs and issues
- Suggestions for additional features or data that would be valuable
Why I built this: I want to make climate data more accessible and help people understand what's happening in their local area with clear, interactive visualizations.
As the content grows, I also hope to provide data that helps making decisions for planting your garden, planning your vacation or events. Whatever insights and value you can draw from the data.
There isn’t a lot to see, yet. But have a look and share your thoughts. If you’re interested in becoming a beta tester, then send me a PM. I’ll get back to you within the next weeks.
ROOFisonFIRE_usa@reddit
Why not just open source this so others can build on top of it and use locally?
truthclimate@reddit (OP)
I honestly haven't considered the open source route. I initially built something to satisfy my own curiosity and found it cool enough that other people might find it interesting as well. Meanwhile, I put a considerable amount of effort and also money into it. So, at some point, I'd be glad to see the project, at least, cover its own costs. Neither the data nor the infrastructure that I use is free.
ROOFisonFIRE_usa@reddit
Understandable. I think this is a good effort, but the data is not presented in a way that is very useful to bots. I should be able to ask chatgpt and it use your site as a source, but because of the way the site is created it does not use your site for the data.
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Chatgpt ended up using latimes.com when I asked. "truthclimate.com has temp and precipitation data for LA. What was the annual precipitation in 1978 in LA?"
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If you want help making the site more friendly to AI, I could potential help in exchange for the dataset.
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Perhaps consider sharing the data you bought and putting up some links to take donations to cover the costs of the data. Instead of shouldering the cost of hosting this data and procuring it we should all be working to build increasingly rich datasets to use and share for various purposes.
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paramarioh@reddit
Is it possible to see trends beyond 2000's?
truthclimate@reddit (OP)
Not now, but later I'll have data between 1940 and today. Depending on the type of metric.
paramarioh@reddit
Lovely. I know, sharing data, gathering, is very hard. However, it is necessary to see fresh data to understand gap
ashvy@reddit
3 things that I can suggest:
truthclimate@reddit (OP)
Thank you for your input. I have been thinking about the same points, too.
1. I'm thinking about showing some kind of tooltip that can be clicked for explanations.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/truthclimate:
Submission Statement: Local climate data visualization helps people understand changing weather patterns and climate trends in their specific area. Climate change accelerates, so having accessible local data helps understanding how collapse-related environmental changes are affecting where you live and also making informed decisions about adaptation, outdoor activities and general preparedness.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1ltsn8h/local_climate_data_visualization_application/n1sorgk/
truthclimate@reddit (OP)
Submission Statement: Local climate data visualization helps people understand changing weather patterns and climate trends in their specific area. Climate change accelerates, so having accessible local data helps understanding how collapse-related environmental changes are affecting where you live and also making informed decisions about adaptation, outdoor activities and general preparedness.