[Open-Energy] Starting work on a European energy data mini-app!

Wed Jan 19 19:29:05 GMT 2011

P.S. Here are the visualisations we did at the Eurostat Hackday last
month, for anyone who hasn't seen them:

  http://blog.okfn.org/2010/12/16/exploring-european-energy-data/

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is an email to get the ball rolling on a small web application on
> European energy data which we will be developing in the next couple of
> weeks:
>
>  * What is it? A small, striking mini-app on the EU energy efficiency
> targets based on data from Eurostat (and possibly other sources)
>  * When is it for? We will be aiming to have this finished in *two
> weeks*: for the 2nd February 2011.
>
> We will be using the following pad for notes/planning:
>
>  * http://energy.okfnpad.org/planning
>
> Here are a few of the kinds of questions we could look into:
>
>  * How do the renewable energy targets compare between different
> member states? (Different countries have different targets: see
> below.)
>  * How far are countries from meeting their targets? Are they on
> course? (I.e. what is energy mix like now, and how has it changed in
> recent years.)
>  * How does the energy mix compare between different countries
> (percentage renewables, etc)?
>  * How does energy demand vary from country to country? (E.g. top
> level breakdown into transport, etc.)
>
> As they can be quite tricky to find, here are the renewable energy
> targets for all EU27 member states:
>
>  http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&plugin=1&language=en&pcode=tsdcc110
>
> If you know anyone else who is up for the challenge (journalists,
> developers, designers, policy folks, researchers, etc), I would be
> grateful if you could direct them to this list!
>
> In particular we'd appreciate input on:
>
>  * finding / interpreting sources of data - Eurostat and beyond
>  * European energy policy in general, and on the energy efficiency
> targets in particular
>  * how we can do interesting data visualisations on the basis of this data
>  * interesting stories / narratives we could tell using this data
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
> http://twitter.com/jwyg
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>

-- 
Jonathan Gray

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