[102] Visualizing Energy Transitions (Exploring Climate Change) (Cutler J Cleveland)
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About the Event
This presentation is a demo of how data visualizations and storytelling can enhance understanding and communication about sustainable energy and climate change.
Timestamps
00:00 Data Umbrella Introduction
03:04 Introduction - Cutler J Cleveland
04:23 Talk begins - Background (“seismic shifts”), Visualizing Energy project
06:00 What is the Visualizing Energy project?
07:19 How to work toward the mission?
08:00 History of Visualizing Data, Background
10:45 Reviewing content / materials created (four Areas of Focus)
11:47 Content discovery - tagged stories with granular topic areas (e.g. “oil”)
12:36 Diving into a specific story (“unit of consumption”)
14:21 Specific story, continued - reviewing line chart, bar chart
15:57 Covering internal links to content + live troubleshooting
17:45 Walkthrough of visualization of total energy in United States by different sources
19:52 Wind energy story, visualization walkthrough
21:54 Hydropower story, visualization walkthrough, downloadable gif
25:02 Continued website walkthrough - About page
26:00 Discussing impact (viewership, 8,000 unique viewers per month)
26:38 Visualization of user geography
27:16 Audience engagement statistics
28:31 Peer-reviewed open educational resources, feedback notes
29:45 Beginning Q&A - Collaborating w/ policymakers
31:35 Q&A: How do you recruit student contributors?
33:44 Q&A: Is this project set up in a way where anybody can contribute?
36:47 Q&A Relationship between extreme events and energy transition
38:15 Q&A Can I be involved? If so, how?
38:48 Q&A How is the project funded?
40:42 Q&A Does your work extend globally, especially to Africa?
42:13 Q&A Do you face challenges in obtaining data from other countries?
46:41 Q&A What type of requests do you receive about the type of information that people are interested in seeing?
48:29 Q&A: PyPUMS data from the University of Minnesota
About the Speaker
Cutler J. Cleveland is Associate Director at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment. His research and teaching focus on the connections among energy, climate change, and sustainability. He is the founder and co-leader of Visualizing Energy, an open-access, interdisciplinary science communication project that aims to increase actionable knowledge about a sustainable and just energy transition. He recently served as the principal investigator for Carbon Free Boston, a technical assessment of strategies to assist the City of Boston in reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. Dr. Cleveland is author and editor of reference works on energy that include the Encyclopedia of Energy, winner of an American Library Association award; the Dictionary of Energy; and the Handbook of Energy. Dr. Cleveland is the recipient of the Adelman-Frankel Award from the United States Association of Energy Economics for “unique and innovative contributions to the field of energy economics.” Dr. Cleveland holds a BS in Biology from Cornell University, a MS in Marine Science from Louisiana State University, and a PhD in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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