viernes, 26 de abril de 2013

Techniques for Displaying Temperature for large data sets

In our project we are dealing with the problem of finding ways to displays temperature for the whole earth. Although the problem seems simple at first, we are struggling with the problem of keeping the fidelity of the data in sets with high volume of data points. Currently we were using the heatmap layer API from Google Maps to display the points. However, this type of graphical representation is better suited for displaying density of points rather than displaying a range of temperature sets. An example is provided.


We are going to continue to look for ways to generate a rasterized image of the whole temperature for the world in different resolutions. In the meantime, we also want to test different representations of the datasets in charts with an example like http://d3js.org/