Authors: Macy Chan, Philson Chan, Mukund Iyer, Pavel Levchenko
This app has a goal to provide an easy access to information related to types of energy consumed at every country and multiple regions over the last few decades. This information could be beneficial to policy makers, who are in charge of making decision related to climate change and forcing transition to cleaner energy sources. More details about potential usage of this dashboard can be found in the proposal document.
World Energy Visualizatoin dashboard will consists of two tabs, where the first tab provides a high level overview, while the second tab gives a more granular detailed information about trends for energy consuption over many years. As can be seen from the sketch shown in Figure 1, in the main dashboard users will be able gain a high level insight about countries with some dominant type of energy, such as "nuclear", "fossil fuel" or "renewable energy". Also with a simple switch, users of the dashboard will be able to identify countries at the bottom of the list, which are lagging behind in adoption of certain type of energy. Besides this tab of the dashboard will provide visualization of the world map colored by a fraction of energy type consumed in each country.
Figure 1. Overview of the main tab
At the second tab of the app, users will be able to select one or a few countries for comparison between each other or with certain regions. All those trends of energy consumption over time will be realized as line plots as schematically shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Prototype for the dashboard with trends
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world-energy-visualization dashboard is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
Datasets for visualization of energy trends were downloaded from https://www.kaggle.com/donjoeml/energy-consumption-and-generation-in-the-globe