Ich probiere diesen neuen Visualisierungsstil aus. Es scheint gut zu sein, um zu zeigen, wie Länge und Intensität zwischen den Zyklen variieren, im Vergleich zur bloßen Verwendung eines Balkendiagramms könnte es jedoch zu Einbußen bei der Klarheit kommen.
https://data.tablepage.ai/d/sunspot-numbers-by-solar-cycle-1755-2026
Von aspiringtroublemaker
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Each petal is a solar cycle. The petal’s length indicates how long the cycle was (~9–14 years). The width/color show the average sunspot number for each month (fattest near solar max, and thinner at the start and end).
Data: SILSO dataset (Royal Observatory of Belgium): [https://www.sidc.be/SILSO/datafiles](https://www.sidc.be/SILSO/datafiles)
Tools: Python + matplotlib
this looks like a sunflower made from space weather data and i’m weirdly into it
Looks cool, but some things are unclear to me. First, what does petal width signify? Is it showing the same data as the colors or something else? Second, the 1-year bar is on a different scale to the actual chart, so am I supposed to eyeball it based on the indicated start years?
The last two cycles have been so underwhelming.
it doesn’t seem to fluctuate on these minor timescales
I like that it looks like a LASCO coronagraph.
What I’m confused about is whether the tip of a „petal“ is supposed to connect temporally to the base of the next or if there’s supposed to be some time between that’s not shown on the chart.
Looks like we’re in for a period on less solar activity. Looking at thr cycles
If petal length = time, why aren’t all but the current petal uniform in length?
Seeing a dip in intensity every 100 years or so. I don’t know much about the topic. What do you think? Coincidence? Illusion?
I dislike the petals because the petals themselves do not form a centuries long cycle of their own
very nice, BUT, if had to pick 1 thing to make it better, it’d be a ring at the 10 year mark so you can easily see the short/long cycles
Neat viz, but the date labels are confusing. They appear to label the gaps between petals.
It feels like it’s extremely alluring and yet deliberately confusing. Like a gorgeous, game-playing woman.
Concentric rings could help a bit to identify individual years, but I guess it would becone a bit crowded altogether then. Nice one though! Took me some time to fully understand what I’m seeing but I can’t think of anything to help with that. Maybe a descriptive short text on the bottom.
What is this graph trying to show?
Looks cool, but does it earn the novelty?
It’s not actually cyclical data, and it’s much harder to compare flare sizes than if it were on a line.