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Show HN: Animated visualisations of global lightning strike location data

2 pointsby robhawkesalmost 5 years ago

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robhawkesalmost 5 years ago
Hello!<p>The past few weeks a friend and I have been working on a series of animated spatial visualisations using global lightning strike location data.<p>You can see and read more about them here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spatialawareness.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;thunderbolts-and-lightning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spatialawareness.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;thunderbolts-and-lightning&#x2F;</a><p>We poured a load of hours in these, and overall it&#x27;s been a really interesting exercise to see how we approach the same dataset differently.<p>Craig&#x27;s visualisation is a beautiful global view of lightning data over a few weeks.<p>My visualisation shows air traffic actively avoiding stormy weather and lightning over Dallas Fort Worth in 2019.<p>---<p>Flight data: OpenSky Network<p>Lightning data: World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN)