{"id":539700,"date":"2010-04-22T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gereports.com\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2010-04-22T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:59:04","slug":"visualizing-your-energy-thirst-on-earth-day%e2%80%99s-40th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/539700","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing your energy thirst on Earth Day\u2019s 40th"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>With today marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, we\u2019re taking the data visualization toolkit that we\u2019ve recently been applying to our healthymagination<\/a> initiative and instead focusing it on ecomagination<\/a>. The simple idea behind data visualization is to take what can often be intimidating amounts of scientific data and turn it into useable information that makes an impact in people\u2019s lives. The new interactive visualization below provides a number of different views on how the appliances in your home consume energy. You can use the tool to measure the average impact of over 50 different electronic devices — from hair dryers and coffee makers to phones and fans — in terms of watts used; the dollars it costs to operate; and the equivalent power consumption in gasoline. The tool even shows what one kilowatt hour yields for each appliance (a toaster produces 36 pieces of toast in one kilowatt hour; a water heater gets just 125 minutes of use). As the visualization team notes, in the United States over 20 percent of our total energy consumption is residential. In fact, the U.S. is the 7th largest per capita consumer of residential energy.<\/p>\n

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\nAre you living with a gas guzzler?<\/span> Click the image to launch the data visualization. Blue stars indicate ENERGY STAR models are available.<\/div>\n

In recent data visualizations, we\u2019ve partnered with the team at GOOD and visualization guru Ben Fry. Today\u2019s project is part of a new partnership with designer Lisa Strausfeld and Pentagram, which Fast Company<\/em> magazine recently cited in its list of the \u201cTop Ten Most Innovative Design Companies.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it wouldn\u2019t be Earth Day without Dwight Schrute from \u201cThe Office\u201d dressed in green and sporting a third eye as \u201cRecyclops.\u201d Check him out and others in an operatic take on the \u201cGreen is Universal<\/a>\u201d campaign at GE\u2019s NBC Universal in the video below.<\/p>\n

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Learn more about data visualization in these GE Reports stories:
\n* \u201cVisualizing health with The Economist Intelligence Unit<\/a>\u201d
\n* \u201cData visualization: A GOOD look at affording care<\/a>\u201d
\n* \u201cBen Fry at SXSW 2010: Visualizing data challenges<\/a>\u201d
\n* \u201cA GOOD look at the \u2018Cost of Chronic Diseases\u2019<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

*See all of our recent healthcare data visualizations in one place<\/a>
\n*Learn more about designer Lisa Strausfeld<\/a>
\n*Read Fast Company\u2019s<\/em> \u201cMasters of Design\u201d feature on Lisa Strausfeld<\/a><\/p>\n

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With today marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, we\u2019re taking the data visualization toolkit that we\u2019ve recently been applying to our healthymagination initiative and instead focusing it on ecomagination. The simple idea behind data visualization is to take what can often be intimidating amounts of scientific data and turn it into useable information that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}