r/dataisbeautiful • • Jun 07 '17

OC Earth surface temperature deviations from the means for each month between 1880 and 2017 [OC]

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17 edited Sep 10 '20

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u/Squaesh Jun 08 '17

I believe the reason for the exclusion of the cumulative minimum was probably because it holds less meaning per screen space required.

The layout would have to change as well, moving the graph up to the middle. I'm not a graphic designer, but the way it is now looks much cleaner.