The fact that whales exist is my constant reminder of magic in the world 🐋 Like there are shockingly intelligent creatures the size of boats drifting through the oceans and singing to each other all the time. How magical is that!?
For day 7 - Navigation of the #30DayMapChallenge , a Spilhaus-y animation of one of my favorite datasets: 18th century whaling logbooks from @mysticseaport. #maps#gis#datavis
That's the part I feel worst about. The cast is giving 110%, the people doing the stunts, effects and production design are doing the best work of their lives. The music and directing is better than anything else on tv. But all of their insane work is being wasted on bad scripts.
Taking another pass at visualizing this summer's wildfires. This time with GEOS-FP black carbon mass composited over the MODIS hotspot data. Tried rendering out a couple of months' worth while I wait for the rest to download.