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Bottled Water: The origins may surprise you

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Posted on Dec 2 2011 by Daniel

Bottled water may seem harmless, but perhaps that’s because you haven’t thought of what “spring water” really means.


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  Tags: bottled water, humor Category: InfoVis, Water

Coal: A Love Story

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Posted on Jul 26 2011 by Daniel

Being for or against coal may sound simple, until you understand how our energy choices affect the poorest, and richest, among us.


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  Tags: coal, documentary, UNC Category: Carbon, Energy, InfoVis

New lightbulb standards, visually.

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Posted on Jul 15 2011 by Daniel

The lightbulb efficiency standards are getting a lot of press coverage, but the real changes are a lot more boring than you’d think.


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  Tags: CFL, LED, lighting Category: Energy, InfoVis, Residential

Wrangling Messy Data

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Posted on Jun 1 2011 by Daniel

Admit it, you clean up your messy data by hand in Excel. You SHOULD be using these tools instead.


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  Tags: air travel, cleaning, data, data wrangler, refine Category: Carbon, EcoMetrics, InfoVis

PlotWatt Labs: Boiling a pot of water, Part II

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Posted on May 11 2011 by Daniel

If you drink cup after cup of hot tea or coffee, you’ll want to know the most efficient way to boil your water. We’ve done the experiment and have the answers!


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  Tags: appliances, boiling, kWh, plotwatt labs, Water Category: EcoMetrics, Energy, InfoVis, PlotWatt, Residential

Put a Price Tag on Power

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Posted on Apr 7 2011 by Daniel

Would you shop at a grocery store with no prices?


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  Tags: disaggregation, electricity, groceries, power Category: EcoMetrics, Energy, InfoVis, PlotWatt, Residential

Experiment smarter, not harder

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Posted on Mar 30 2011 by Daniel

Whether your improving a recipe, testing out a new marketing strategy, or calming a crying baby, you are doing experiments. Here’s a little-known method to get better results in less time.


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  Tags: battleship, cake, design of experiments, DOE, statistics Category: Design, InfoVis

Radiation Dose Chart

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Posted on Mar 23 2011 by Daniel

With the catastrophe gripping the Fukushima reactor in Japan, you may be wondering, “How much radiation is too much?”


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  Tags: japan, nuclear, radiation, visualization Category: Energy, InfoVis

What causes traffic congestion?

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Posted on Mar 8 2011 by Daniel

There’s nothing more frustrating than being stuck in traffic. Except when you realize there was no reason for the traffic in the first place!


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  Tags: cars, congestion, fuel, gasoline, traffic, waiting Category: InfoVis, Transportation

Mystery Map – Factory Farms

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Posted on Mar 3 2011 by Daniel

Did you guess what data went in to the mystery map? Find out now!


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  Tags: factory farm, farming, livestock, pigs Category: EcoMetrics, Food and Agriculture, InfoVis
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