Team 6 Hangout 1:
Atendees, Mark H, Mark P and Sarah
Summary of topics covered
- Introductions,
- Decision on regular Hangouts (Sunday 8.30pm)
- overcomming technical problems,
- review of data,
- discussion of mission and
- some ideas for the data
- Next steps
Potential questions:
1. Basic data anlysis and correlations
- Animate change over time to show geographical and temporal variations in emissions
- Do we normalise the data against factors like geographic area included, population?
- Impact of energy prices & import /export status on CO2 emmissions
2. More advanced investigations and correlations
- What activities are the most C02 producing? industry? travel? mining? vehicles? miles of tarmaced road?- get break down of country industry - can we find features that would be predictive of co2 prodn
- Car ownership
- What about industrial growth and outputs?
- Access to public transport
3.C02 emissions in relation to natural world/geography and climent change
- Is C02 related to temperature? - world, continent, ocean, country, latitude? - get world temp records
- Do emissions relate to the topographical aspects of the country - coastal, island, inland etc? (actually probably same as 3)
- What is the total content of atmospheric C02?- search/calc
- How much world C02 release is NOT related to human activity? - volcanos? other sources? . i.e. what proportion of total is man made?
4. Predictive analysis of data sets for insights
- At what magnitude does a countries GDP begin to influence negatively on C02?.
- We could group (using statistical clustering) countries by a large number of variables - GDP, Popultation, energy production etc to group countries by type of polluter (poor but doing well, rich but heavily polluting etc)
- Can we using the retrospective data find a link bettwen Co2 prodn and the happiness indexes?
* Oh here is an interesting tool I know of developed by a team at a hackathon to investigate some similar european data - http://energy.publicdata.eu/ee/vis.html# - just thought it might be of interest to you.