Tagged: chart

GeoNet web traffic plotted against aftershocks - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Sep 13, 2010 •

• chart,
• Data,
• earthquakes,
• web

GeoNet have created a line chart to show the volume of web traffic they received in the days following the 2010 Christchurch earthquake. There are three main things to keep in mind when you read the graph: The green line shows the number of hits their website was receiving per second (in one minute averages). The orange diamond … Read More

Hand drawn chart of aftershock intensity - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Sep 06, 2010 •

• chart,
• Christchurch,
• Data,
• earthquakes

Mike Dickison, from the excellent Pictures of Numbers information design blog, has been working with GeoNet’s seismic data. This morning Mike asked the Internet “has anyone produced a graph of all the aftershocks and their intensity over the past two days?” It seemed that nobody had, so he created his own … by hand. The figure below is a … Read More