MSNBC’s Interactive Historical Hurricane Tracker

A new interactive visualization on MSNBC.com shows the history storm track of 283 hurricanes curring since 1851 and 2008.  Using the various controls you can filter the dataset by storm intensity (Tropical Depression through Cat5), Year (slider on the bottom), landfall location (slider on the right), and individual hurricane name or location.

Historical Hurricane Tracker – - MSNBC.com.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .