the life of a glacier in switzerland

[SimoneLuc]

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Pitch

I wanted to know how glaciers in Switzerland have changed. Because auf the global warming they are melting quiet fast.

Summary

Details

Possible headline(s): How much swiss glacier shrinked in the last 100 years

Data set(s): http://swiss-glaciers.glaciology.ethz.ch/index.html

Code repository: https://github.com/SimoneLuc/data-studio

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Work so far

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[troboukis]

Nice story and nice graphics. Maybe make the colours to mean sth. Like from light blue to dark blue.

[jessimckenzi]

This is great so far! I love the graphs you have made, especially the one showing small glacier v. large glacier. I think displaying in a blue/darkblue/white color scheme would work best for a story about glaciers. Would love descriptive labels so I know what I'm looking at. Here are some other styles that you can slot in: http://www.futurile.net/2016/02/27/matplotlib-beautiful-plots-with-style/

[SimoneLuc]

Update

Your project content: how change glaciers ins switzerland during the past?

Any changes in direction or topic?

-did some design stuff: tried do give a little more scientific outfit -comparison between three swiss glacier on the nord-south axe -thinking about put together the data of all the glaciers for get the total length change, mean change or total melted volume etc.

Problems/Questions

Illustrator is tricky (e.g. workflow, levels)! would be nice to learn the 20 most important functions :-)

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[SimoneLuc]

[troboukis]

Nice! Maybe I'd change the opacity of the grid to 80%. It's a bit distracting cause it's over the black background.

[mattrehbein]

I love the glacially themed color scheme.

I'm not sure the melting over time graph works based on how you are calculating it. If I see shrinking over time, my expectation is that the end point will be the glaciers' current size, not a sum of how much they changed over the years.

[SimoneLuc]

Final

Project visuals/text

the life of a glacier in switzerland

Details

I wanted to know how glaciers in Switzerland have changed. Because auf the global warming they are melting quiet fast.

Headline: Aletsch glacier is shrinking dramatically

Published website version:

Code repository: https://github.com/SimoneLuc/data-studio

Final data set(s): Data set(s): http://swiss-glaciers.glaciology.ethz.ch/index.html

What did you find to be the most difficult part of this project?

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Are you satisfied with what you produced? Is there anything you would like to change or improve?

No t satiesfied, there is no story yet...I only wanted to expore iluutrator and the workflow notebook to jupiter etc.

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[SimoneLuc]

Here did (bigger title, left loc etc.), and I changed the opacity, but because I worked last time on the graph in Illustrator, I've lost all the years and lenght numbers I hardly created. And I didn't have time to do that again.

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[ksliney]

Hey Simone! The first graph is my favorite--it seems to beg the question why the aletsch is shortening in length faster than the others. Do you have any info on why that is the case? Does location play a factor? Maybe adding an annotation in illustrator, when you're all done, would be good. On that first graph, I'm wondering why you chose to start your graph's time period at 1870. If you only graphed a shorter time period (say, 1950 onward) would the length change in the glaciers appear more dramatic? Would you be able to view see more nuance from the data? Just wondering if there's any significance in starting at 1870.

[sarahslo]

so here's my question for you. how big are these glaciers to begin with? you show us the change in length but i don't think i know how big these are to begin with so...i assume the one that is melting the fastest is the biggest? or is it the smallest? that would be bad.

one thing to think about when you do this is the question, 'as compared to what'? so i want to get a better sense of not only how fast they are changing but how big they were from start to finish.

the black and the blue-- yes the background needs to be less strong of a color. you can almost imagine a black chart if you try.

[tsp2123]

These graphs are incredibly aesthetically pleasing imho, I enjoy the color scheme and how it reflects the subject matter. I wonder if the measurement change would benefit from a graph of straight measurements because there are periods in which they dramatically change in length and others in which it changes less, but the story is the glacier is deteriorating, right?