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A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.
Dark Sky aggressively leaned into these ideas, and the team worked hard to turn nearly everything in the application into a context-sensitive information graphic. The temperature values are more tightly integrated with the visual representation, making the combined experience more amenable to quick comparison across multiple days. To help users stay informed and take action, the app will often replace precise forecast distributions of rainfall and snowfall with rough categories instead.
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