Envisioning Information
It's much easier to read large collections of data in a visual format and this type of graphic data presentation is a modern phenomenon (relatively speaking). Can you imagine reading all these data points as lists of numbers? Talk about information overload . . . but like all other information you receive visually, everything is done for a reason. Read the above data points. What has been the trend for winter temperatures in England for the last 350 years? What projections can you make from this trend? Here's another graph of 10,000 years of global temperatures from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2. What has been the trend for worldwide temperatures in the last 10,000 years? What projections can you make from this trend? Here's a different presentation of the same information: Why do you think the author highlighted certain segments of the data line? The green bars are labelled using periods of human civilization: Minoan warm period, Roman warm period, Medie...