[open-energy] Icons

Thu Jan 27 17:31:10 GMT 2011

@uli:
thanks for your Feedback. your input is very welcome. I already thought 
about this circle-trails-thing and I'll experiment on that when the 
first demo-release is ready.

in the final version there will be more options for the arrangement of 
the countries, including more simple sortings like the total 
consumption, total production, share of renewables, etc.

There several open design questions (some addressed to all in the list):

1. I'm not sure where to put the menu bar for the sort-selector. What 
first came into my mind are large buttons below the circles. (see 
attached sketch)

2. I think a full timeline would make the interface a bit more 
understandable. Maybe we can just put it on top of the circles?

3. There are three visual variables available for displaying some 
country data. The radius, the desired y-Position and the color. I'm not 
sure if it's a good idea to allow the display of multiple variables at 
the same time, say y-Position = total consumption, radius = renewable 
share. Maybe this distorts the simplicity of the UI too much. what do 
you think?

4. When dealing with colors, there is also an option to introduce color 
scales. Not sure about that.

5. Are there any ideas for more ways to sort the countries given the 
data we already use (consumption by sectors & production by sources)? 
Maybe something that addresses some of the targets? Maybe some kind of 
per-capita normalizing?

Again, your feedback (Uli as well as the rest of the list) is very welcome.

Am 27.01.2011 17:52, schrieb Uli Schöberl:
> Hi Gregor,
>
> that looks promising, thanks for the Intro.
>
> As a Feedback:
> I would be interested in seeing straight away where a country is 
> heading towards. Basically including a permanently visible Time 
> dimension. One Method could be to have opaque trails of the dots which 
> I know is difficult with the organic placement as it is now. Questions 
> to the graph is: Who is changing his habits how quickly in which 
> direction and ideally: Who maybe has promised too much and won't be 
> able to meet targets.
>
> The change in the general consumption/production ratio also seems 
> quite low, how is the date in energy mix looking? Does that maybe show 
> more overall movement?
>
> As a suggestion for the datail Screen, the Shape of the Country is 
> quite unrelated to the data, maybe flags and bigger typography could 
> work better?
>
> I have a look at the Icons as soon as possible.
>
> best
> Uli
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Gregor Aisch <gka at vis4.net 
> <mailto:gka at vis4.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Uli,
>
>     thanks for dropping by :)
>
>     please take a look at the following links, they show early
>     prototypes of the app.
>     http://www.youtube.com/user/drivenbydata#p/a/u/0/lp01rhOWdLw
>     http://www.driven-by-data.net/interactive/energy/
>
>     there are two screens, one shows all european countries and the
>     others provides more details for one selected country. sketch.ai
>     <http://sketch.ai> shows a rough sketch for the details screen.
>     hope you get the basic idea.
>
>     see open-energy-icons.ai <http://open-energy-icons.ai> to find out
>     what icons are missing.
>
>     please also look at wheredoesmymoneygo.org
>     <http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org>, would be nice to have icons in
>     the same style as used there
>
>     http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/dashboard/#focus=TOTAL&year=2009&view=uk-bubble-chart
>     <http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/dashboard/#focus=TOTAL&year=2009&view=uk-bubble-chart>
>
>     best,
>     Gregor
>
>
>     Am 27.01.2011 15:29, schrieb Uli Schöberl:
>>     Hi There,
>>
>>     I hope I will not only be helpful with Icons,
>>     but I'd be good to know what specific Symbols are needed.
>>     As far as I understand now those would be needed to visualise
>>     Energy Sources (Wind, Solar, Coal, Oil etc) and Applications
>>     (Cars, Buildings, Industry, Households ..)
>>
>>     Would be great to get a clearer Idea what the App will look like,
>>     as a suggestion and without knowing if we need a backend, the
>>     site/app could be hosted and deployed via github pages. This way
>>     everyone could suggest changes and participate.
>>
>>     best from Berlin for now
>>     Uli
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan Gray
>>     <jonathan.gray at okfn.org <mailto:jonathan.gray at okfn.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         I'm also very pleased to introduce Uli Schöberl, a Berlin-based
>>         designer [1] who would like to help with making the icons!
>>
>>         Gregor: would you be happy to fill in Uli (and the list)
>>         about what
>>         icons you currently need, and the visual style you are going for?
>>
>>         Uli: perhaps you have some ideas on what you could do (or
>>         what you
>>         might be interested in doing)?
>>
>>         A big welcome to Uli! ;-D
>>
>>         Jonathan
>>
>>         [1] http://aplusplus.org/
>>
>>
>>         On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jonathan Gray
>>         <jonathan.gray at okfn.org <mailto:jonathan.gray at okfn.org>> wrote:
>>         > Thanks to the magic of the internet [1], someone also
>>         suggested:
>>         >
>>         > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Icons
>>         >
>>         > J.
>>         >
>>         > http://twitter.com/#!/lukask/status/30616533029888001
>>         <http://twitter.com/#%21/lukask/status/30616533029888001>
>>         >
>>         > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Gregor Aisch <gka at vis4.net
>>         <mailto:gka at vis4.net>> wrote:
>>         >> Ok, thanks. Good to know.
>>         >>
>>         >>
>>         >>
>>         >> Am 27.01.2011 14:03, schrieb Jonathan Gray:
>>         >>>
>>         >>> Dear Gregor,
>>         >>>
>>         >>> The icons you have pointed to are really nice, but, in
>>         order to make
>>         >>> sure that we and others don't have problems reusing or
>>         redistributing
>>         >>> the visualisations we produce downstream, it would be
>>         good to make
>>         >>> sure that everything we do is open as in
>>         opendefinition.org <http://opendefinition.org>.
>>         >>>
>>         >>> Here are some other fully open icon collections:
>>         >>>
>>         >>> http://ckan.net/tag/icons
>>         >>>
>>         >>> If you need further help looking for these I'd be happy
>>         to help look into
>>         >>> this.
>>         >>>
>>         >>> As an aside I have had a long running interest in
>>         creating a large,
>>         >>> beautiful and freely reusable collection of pictograms
>>         for use in open
>>         >>> data projects (a bit like Otto Neurath's Isotype
>>         Institute did in the
>>         >>> 1930s). I'd be very pleased if we now have an excuse to
>>         look into
>>         >>> making this! ;-)
>>         >>>
>>         >>> All the best,
>>         >>>
>>         >>> Jonathan
>>         >>>
>>         >>>
>>         >>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
>>         >>> <friedrich at pudo.org <mailto:friedrich at pudo.org>>  wrote:
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> Hey,
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Gregor
>>         Aisch<gka at vis4.net <mailto:gka at vis4.net>>  wrote:
>>         >>>>>
>>         >>>>> just thought a bit about the details of the visual
>>         style I'm going to
>>         >>>>> use
>>         >>>>> for the energy visualization. I kind of like the style
>>         of WDMMG and
>>         >>>>> would
>>         >>>>> suggest to adapt it as far as possible (fonts&  colors).
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> Great idea, if these two look related it would be fantastic.
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>>> What do you think about thís icon style?
>>         >>>>>
>>         >>>>>
>>         >>>>>
>>         http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-14220065-icon-set-energy-and-industry.php
>>         >>>>>
>>         >>>>>
>>         http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-11257146-icon-set-environment.php
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> There's also a lot of good icons on WikiCommons, see here:
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Symbols
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> They're often PD, so its an excellent resource!
>>         >>>>
>>         >>>> Friedrich
>>         >>>>
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>>         >
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>>         >
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>>     Uli Schöberl
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