Art offers a glimpse of Hurricane Sandy's impact

Daily Climate: An art project showing wind speeds across the United States in real time offers a fascinating glimpse of the scale of Hurricane Sandy's impact on the eastern third of the United States. The map is a personal art project from the Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg at Point.B.Studio. The pair set up a website that visualizes wind speed data gathered from the National Digital Forecast Database – near-term forecasts updated once an hour. But the federal data is gobbledygook. Viégas and Wattenberg...

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