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THE PROJECT
DATA + CONTEST
Data and technology give us a possibility to visualize Climate Change with a local perspective.
Our climate is changing and yet is difficult for us to identify our daily life as endangered. Piedmont, a region of Italy bordering France and Switzerland, is an area experiencing major improvements and transformations in several fields but, as in many other territories, this topic continues to appear as a remote issue for a lot of people.
We designed "Overcast" as a tool to explore changes in rainfall and other forms of precipitation since they are one of the most critical factors determining the overall impact of climate change. Using local data we wanted to emphasize that we are part of this global issue and that it is our own reality that is changing, mostly without us noticing.
Piedmont Visual Contest is a competition that calls communities and networks of developers and digital activists to engage themselves in a collective intelligence process, aimed at facilitating access to Piedmont public digital heritage, in order to improve transparency, as well as the quality and quantity of information datasets available to citizens.
The theme of the 2016 contest has been changings and transformations of Piedmont territory. For more informations check the official website.
In order to visualize overall trends we decided to collect and use data from all the last 40 years of climate and precipitations recorded in the area of Turin from two different websites, ilMeteo and Tutiempo.
The combination of the two sources, in a single dataset, is available here (.csv files).
45.2025° N / 7.6494° E Turin - Piedmont Region 300 m. a.s.l.
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rainiest days in the last 40 years
AMOUNT OF DAYS OBSERVED (DD)
AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATIONS (MM)
AT THE END OF APRIL 1990 TURIN WAS COVERED IN SNOW.
Explore precipitation's pattern over the last 40 years, check out variations in their amount and look for abrupt changes in their periodical presence.
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AMOUNT OF DAYS OBSERVED (DD)
AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATIONS (MM)
DURING 1988 RAIN DEFEATED SNOW 1426 TO 1
In this vizualization a focus have been put on the gap between our two different type of precipitations,
in order to visually highlight possible trends and variations during the last years.
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AMOUNT OF DAYS OBSERVED (DD)
AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATIONS (MM)
APPARENTLY, AT MILD TEMPERATURE YOU'LL GET MORE RAIN.
Given the gradual warming of our planet, this final visualization combines the amount of precipitations
with the temperature they occurred to, to open a conversation around this compound theme.