792x / DutchEnergyVisualization

An interactive dashboard for geographically visualizing the energy usage of The Netherlands across various dimensions.

Dutch Energy Visualization

A dashboard for geographically visualizing the energy usage of The Netherlands across various dimensions.

For a demo video see screencast.mp4

For the whitepaper see DutchEnergyVisualization.pdf

Data

The energy consumption data was retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/lucabasa/dutch-energy

The geojson data for The Netherlands was retrieved from https://cartomap.github.io/nl/

Setup

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/792x/DutchEnergyVisualization.git

cd DutchEnergyVisualization

Server

Installation

cd dutch-energy-server

npm install

Copy the data folder somewhere on your system, suggestions are C:\Users\Public\ on windows and /tmp on Mac/Linux

In the root folder of the dutch-energy-server project create a .ENV file and set the DATAPATH variable to the data folder on your system. Make sure the 'postgres' user can access this folder.

DATAPATH=/tmp/data/

Running

Running the server for the first time and importing the files, this also drops the tables (read: empties database).

npm run start-overwrite

Running the server normally

npm start

Server now active at localhost:3001

The server expects the following postgres configuration but can be changed in database.ts

{
    username: 'postgres',
    password: '1234',
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 5432,
}

Webapp

Installation

cd dutch-energy-webapp

npm install

Running

npm start

Webapp now accessible at localhost:3000 with hot reloading.