tolu / liu-energy-explorer

A (very specific) information visualization application

Energy Explorer

An information visualization application developed as for the inf-viz course (TNM048) at Linköpings University 2009 by Fredrik Rinman, Petter Grundström & Tobias Lundin.

The goal was to create a tool that enables exploratory analysis into how energy consumption and welfare are connected for a given country.

Visualization methods

To help visual analytics the app uses several methods and the software was developed using the GeoAnalytics Visualization (GAV) framework. More methods at NComVA's guides

Cloropleth Map

Scatter Plot

Parallel Coordinates Plot

Table Lens

Data sources

The following data points was collected from public databases provided by the United Nations and the World Bank in the time segment 1990-2005.

Welfare variables

• Employment-to-population ratio, percentage
• Infant mortality rate (0-1 year) per 1,000 live births
• Personal computers per 100 population
• Internet users per 100 population
• Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)
• Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)
• GDP per capita, current international dollars
• GDP growth (annual %)
• Percentage urban (%)
• Population, total

Energy variables

• Energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita)
• Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)
• Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) Emissions without LULUCF, in Gigagrams (Gg) CO2 equivalent

License

MIT @ https://tolu.mit-license.org/