alternative visualisation: burning solar hours in a log

This is just the prettiest chart ever. Some smarty pants artists/statisticians set up this system that records the amount of sunlight per day at park by burning it into a log via magnifying glass. https://t.co/ZnGLJbouzR pic.twitter.com/ZkkmqNzoz1

— Dr. Jess Hartnett 📊 (@Notawful) November 7, 2018

Jess Hartnett tweets:

This is just the prettiest chart ever. Some smarty pants artists/statisticians set up this system that records the amount of sunlight per day at park by burning it into a log via magnifying glass.

original tweet

From reddit

and seemed to be based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell–Stokes_recorder.

Pretty cool