Design and build an interactive data visualization or information graphic that visually clarifies our reliance on electricity, how we generate power, how we use it and/or its effects on our planet. Formulate a question around this topic, use this question as your basis for you research, collect data from reputable sources to support your answer to this question and create a interactive visualization using this data.

• The Data Pipeline
  • Data Collection/Sourcing
    • Open Datasets
      • Government open data sets
      • Research organizations
      • Publicly traded corporations (SEC filings)
      • Journalistic resources
      • Crowd sourced data
    • Web Scrapping with Python
      • HTML data formats
      • Data scrapping using APIs (Tweepy)
    • Scrapping data from JS visualizations
      • Most online interactive data visualizations have accessable data sets in the source code.
    • Using Tabula to extract data from PDFs
      • Annual reports, financial public filings, research papers usually are PDFs which is not a easily usable or convertable data format.
    • "Big Data"
  • Scrubbing/Cleaning Data
    • Why we need to throughly clean our datasets
    • Find and replace (Excel)
    • Open Refine
  • Best tools and practices for data analysis
    • Excel/Google Sheets
      • Pivot Tables
      • Formulas
    • Python and R
  • Visualizing for insight
    • Charting tools in Excel/Google Sheets

• The psychology of visualizing data
  • Why visualize at all?
  • Numbers vs shape transformations
  • Tufte vs Holmes
• Infographics, data storytelling, and data visualization
  • Know your audience
• Ethics of Data Viz
• Adobe Illustrator charting tool
• Processing/p5js
• Datavisual

• Review of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery
• Interactive data visualizations with D3

• Interactive geographic data visualizations
  • Maps with D3
  • Google Maps API
• Live Data and APIs
  • Weather data

• Final refinements
• Project presentations

• The Functional Art, by Alberto Cairo
• The Truthful Art, by Alberto Cairo
• Edward Tufte Books (All of Them)
• Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling, by Jason Lankow,‎ Josh Ritchie,‎ Ross Crooks
• Information Design Workbook, by Kim Baer
• HTML and CSS, by Jon Duckett
• JavaScript and JQuery, by Jon Duckett
• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, by Scott Murray
• Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neil
• Black Box Society, Frank Pasquale