Energy flow visualizations for USA, UK, China and World, 2007

Continuing my series on the visualization of energy flows, the 2007 energy flows for (click on links for interactive diagrams):

• China 
• UK
• USA
• World:

Source: C.A. Smith, R.D. Belles, and A.J. Simon. March 2011. Estimated International Energy Flows 2007 (3.9MB PDF). Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  

Related links:  

• Visualizing Alberta energy flow, emissions and water use by sector
• Visualizing Canadian Energy Flows with d3.js Sankey diagrams

Visualizing Alberta energy flow, emissions and water use by sector

Related to my earlier post Visualizing Canadian Energy Flows with d3.js Sankey diagrams, here I am presenting Sankey diagrams with data from the publication:

2011. Development of Energy, Emission and Water Flow Sankey Diagrams for the Province of Alberta Through Modeling Final Report. April 11, 2011. Amit Kumar, Veena Subramanyam, Md Ruhul Kabir. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta.

Sankey diagrams (click on links for interactive diagrams):

• Alberta Energy Flows, 2005
• Alberta Energy Sector --> Emissions Flow, 2005
• Alberta Water Allocation, 2005
• Alberta: Water Use of Athabasca River basin by Sector, 2005

 The last is particularly illuminating, showing a huge amount of both surface water and ground water used by the petroleum industry from the Athabasca River basin. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_oil_sands#Water:

Thanks again to Mike Bostock and his d3.js plugin for making Sankey diagrams. 

Visualizing Canadian Energy Flows with d3.js Sankey diagrams

I have been working with processing.js but wanted to learn a little about d3js for visualizations, so took a look at Mike Bostock's d3.js plugin for making Sankey diagrams.

So I pulled down two documents that had energy flow diagrams for Canada:

• 2006. Powerful Connections: Priorities and Directions in Energy Science and Technology in Canada. The Report of the National Advisor Panel on Sustainable Energy Science and Technology, Natural Resources Canada, p76.
• 2008. Report on Energy Supply and Demand in Canada Catalogue no. 57-003-X, Statistics Canada, p121.

I extracted the data from these diagrams and built these interactive Sankey energy flows:

• 2003 Canadian Energy Flows
• 2007 Canadian Energy Flows

Note that these two documents are looking at slightly different views of energy flows (and 2007 does not include Uranium), so can't be compared directly.

If you have any (preferably Canadian) datasets that could be presented in this fashion, let me know and we can collaborate in getting them into this form.

Addendum: 2012 10 26 22:28: Wow! The Economist's blog Graphic detail: Charts, maps and infographics has an article about this post: Charting Canada's energy: Go with the flow 

Related article on energy flows using Sankey diagrams: Visualizing Alberta energy flow, emissions and water use by sector

My Google Scholar Citations page

I just took advantage of the opening-up of Google Scholar Citations and got my own page up. It is pretty cool to see your citations, etc. all pulled together.

IEEE Software on Software Business Models

The July/August IEEE Software [paywall warning] is a special issue on software as business, which includes one article that is Open Source oriented, and one that is "code sharing" oriented. Here are the articles:

• Guest Editors' Introduction: Software as a Business
• Software Industry Business Models
• Matching Open Source Software Licenses with Corresponding Business Models
• Sharing Source Code with Clients: A Hybrid Business and Development Model
• Developing Cloud Business Models: A Case Study on Cloud Gaming

Canada not involved in Aid transparency

1. The Aid Revolution begins with XML / The Aid Revolution Begins Here
2. Publish What You Fund: The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency
3. International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)

Very oddly, Canada (correction: Canadian government: see below) is NOT involved in this initiative, but the following countries and organizations are:

•    World Bank
•    Asian Development Bank
•    The European Commission (EC)
•    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
•    Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI)
•    Hewlett Foundation
•    Australia - AusAID
•    Denmark - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
•    Finland - Ministry for Foreign Affairs
•    Germany - Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
•   Ireland - Irish Aid
•   Netherlands – Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Development Cooperation
•   New Zealand – NZAID
•   Norway - Norad
•   Spain – Spain Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
•   Sweden - SIDA
•   Switzerland - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
•   UK - DFID

There is also no Canadian government involvement on the IATI steering committee.

Someone should pass this on to the CBC, pointing out Canada's non-participation.
Someone should ask all the parties in the Canadian election what their policy on this is.

Correction: 2011.03.27 11:54:  As suggested by letters to donors ("IATI steering committee members commend donors for agreement of Standard") there is some Canadian, non-government, involvement of

• The Canadian Council for International Cooperation and Better Aid
• The Canadian coalition to end global poverty

Comparative E-Government: Canada

Comparative E-Government
Integrated Series in Information Systems
Volume 25, 2010, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6536-3

Chapters involving Canada:

• Digital Government in North America: A Comparative Analysis of Policy and Program Priorities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States
• E-government Maturity over 10 Years: A Comparative Analysis of E-government Maturity in Select Countries Around the World 
• E-government and Federalism in Italy and Canada—A Comparative Assessment
• Adoption of Web 2.0 by Canadian and US Governments