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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...

This is old news from February, but I seemed to have missed it: the NRCan (Federal Natural Resources ministry in Canada) libraries have chosen the Open Source Evergreen integrated library system (ILS). Kudos to my colleague George Duimovich and others at the NRCan library . Here is the opening search interface . It is great to see sensible Web 2.0 and Open Source choices can be made in such organizations.