This page is an step by step instruction of how to:
- download and install the application to use it
- download original data and source code to view it
- download resource files and Processing to edit the source code, fix bugs and redistribute it
Download and install the application
1. download app for your Operating System.
- Download app for MacOSX
- Download app for Windows 32bit
- Download app for Windows 64bit
- Download app for Linux 32bit
- Download app for Linux 64bit
2. unzip it, run it, enjoy.
Acquire original data and source code
Original data I used for this application is from the US Energy Information Administration.
The data is available here: http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm
I used following data sets, from 1980 - 2009:
- Total primary energy production
- Total primary energy consumption
- Total primary energy consumption per capita
- Total carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of Energy
- Per capita carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of Energy
- Total renewable electricity generation, and
- Population
more information about data is in data source section.
Source code of this project for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux is here
The source code can be opened by any text editor.
Download and install Processing
1. Processing can be found at processing.org. This project was built and tested using 2.0b3.
2. Unzip it.
3. To run on your desktop PC or laptop, comment the line
"omicronManager.ConnectToTracker(7001, 7340, "131.193.77.159");" if it is not.
Download the resource files
1. All the resource file, including data sets in .txt format, a .png world map used in the application and the .raw map file from which the .png file is generated, can be downloaded from here.
2. Unzip them into a folder, name it as 'data'(case sometimes sensitive), then copy it to the project folder.