Modeling the Rise of Carbon Dioxide

Made in 2019 with GSAP, React, and a ton of JavaScript

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Recent trends in atmospheric carbon dioxide are brought to life using interactive data visualizations and scroll-based animations.

In addition to a line chart, the same data is presented in a polar plot where seasonal variations fade into the background as year-by-year changes are highlighted.

Visualization of carbon dioxide data with green trend line moving upward
Visualization of carbon dioxide data with green squiggly trend line fitted to seasonal variations
Polar plot of carbon dioxide data with a single circle corresponding to a year of data
Polar plot of carbon dioxide data highlighting the skew caused by seasonal variations

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