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Neat looking visualization. Sorry for the nitpick but personally a straight line (rather than circular) plot 00:00 - 24:00 will help see the peaks and compare h
by hakcermani 11y ago
Neat looking visualization. Sorry for the nitpick but personally a straight line (rather than circular) plot 00:00 - 24:00 will help see the peaks and compare high-low better. The time could you also show by time of generation rather than local. (it is weird to see peak solar at 0200 hrs )
- thrownaway2424 11y agoThis polar plot has a few things going for it. I disagree with what you said because I think this presentation more clearly shows the peak. The peak is the point where the colored area intersects the circumference. On a timeline you are forced to guess at the peak. The other thing that's perfectly obvious on this graph is the comparison with 24 hours ago.
- vegabook 11y agoPersonally I quite like the polar coordinates, though it's a pity that by convention, a watch face only holds half a day, as we would otherwise have a nice mapping of generation time to a watch-face equivalent. My nitpick is that this is ultimately a stacked bar chart, so as with cartesian stacked charts, it obfuscates some of proportions, in particular the very interesting cyclicity of renewables. The author has wisely put the higher-variance variables first, mitigating the problem somewhat, but not completely, as can be seen by comparing to the gridwatch UK equivalent.
- imdsm 11y agohttp://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/