Breakthrough

The sun’s out today. After four days of incessant rain.

As I ran up the stairs to the train station, I stopped in my tracks (pun intended).  A magical sight – a rainbow that suddenly became two rainbows. I pulled out my phone & snapped this picture up, just as it started to drizzle again.

By the time I got to the platform, it was already beginning to fade away. Moments later, it was gone.
For those three minutes, it was a surreal view.

The day’s been much brighter today.
The world looks much greener.
Challenges that were insurmountable seem to have been washed away..

Colors, explained. – why choosing the right color is important for your charts [Article]

Robert Kosara had a very relevant article (for me, at least), about having the right colors to depict the information in a chart. Using a rainbow color map from a paper on water resources published in the Journal of American Water Resources Association, he explains in some detail why a beautiful looking map chart was totally misleading.