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Data Visualization Examples

• Metropolitan Toronto energy flow Sankey diagram for 1988

  
  Dec 31, 2016
• Lombardy region, Italy: energy consumption in the agriculture sector

  
  Dec 30, 2016
• The energy metabolism of the Lombardy region in northern Italy

  
  Dec 29, 2016
• Material flow accounting of an Indian village

  
  Dec 28, 2016
• Urban Metabolism: Buenos Aires, Argentina

  
  Dec 27, 2016
• Urban Metabolism: City of Sao Paulo, Brazil

  
  Dec 26, 2016
• Urban Metabolism: Metro Manila, Phillippines

  
  Dec 25, 2016
• Los Angeles Net Solar Potential

  
  Dec 24, 2016
• Cities that think like planets: complexity, resilience, and innovation in hybrid ecosystems

  
  Dec 23, 2016
• Power from the sun 1953

  
  Dec 22, 2016
• Major agglomerations of the world

  
  Dec 21, 2016
• Italia Post-Metropoli Atlante

  
  Dec 20, 2016
• Urban metabolism methodologies

  
  Dec 19, 2016
• Water consumption in Los Angeles

  
  Dec 18, 2016
• Material flow diagram from 1969

  
  Dec 17, 2016
• Hong Kong's material flows in 1978

  
  Dec 16, 2016
• Urban metabolism methodologies and scales

  
  Dec 15, 2016
• Metabolic network model for urban carbon metabolism

  
  Dec 14, 2016
• Metabolic pattern in Shanghai

  
  Dec 13, 2016
• Cape Town Population Density

  
  Dec 12, 2016
• Water flows in Amsterdam

  
  Dec 11, 2016
• Modeling of material and energy flows in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy

  
  Dec 10, 2016
• Word Map

  
  Dec 09, 2016
• Six maps that show the anatomy of America's vast infrastructure

  
  Dec 08, 2016
• The urban metabolism of Plaine Commune in 2012

  
  Dec 07, 2016
• Direct Material Consumption and Water use in Lisbon

  
  Dec 06, 2016
• Electricity and natural gas use in Amsterdam (open data)

  
  Dec 05, 2016
• Cities as urban mines

  
  Dec 04, 2016
• Ideal Urban Metabolism

  
  Dec 03, 2016
• How much is left?

  
  Dec 02, 2016
• Global iron stocks (in use and reserves)

  
  Dec 01, 2016
• Flows and stocks of goods in the anthroposphere of Vienna, Austria

  
  Nov 30, 2016
• Material Flow Analysis of the Italian Economy 1994

  
  Nov 29, 2016
• Interactive Visualization and Measurement of Urban Areas 2012

  
  Nov 28, 2016
• Bangalore Urban Metabolism Project (BUMP) 2011

  
  Nov 27, 2016
• Absolute and Per square foot of Residential and Commerical Energy use in Los Angeles

  
  Nov 26, 2016
• The Urban Metabolism of Rotterdam (flow of goods)

  
  Nov 25, 2016
• The Material Footprint of Global Consumption

  
  Nov 24, 2016
• Resource and waste flows for 27 megacities in 2011

  
  Nov 23, 2016
• Bilan de flux de matière pour la Région de Bretagne 2011

  
  Nov 22, 2016
• Tracing the global path of hazardous garbage

  
  Nov 21, 2016
• How Populations and Vehicle Densities affect Air Quality in India

  
  Nov 20, 2016
• Los Angeles County Energy Atlas

  
  Nov 19, 2016
• Electricity consumption in Hong Kong in 2010

  
  Nov 18, 2016
• Imports and exports of Ile-de-France

  
  Nov 17, 2016
• Periodic Table of Elements - Part 2

  
  Nov 16, 2016
• Elements according to relative abundance in the Earth's crust

  
  Nov 15, 2016
• The urban metabolism of the Toronto Port Lands

  
  Nov 14, 2016
• The material turnover of primitive man in his private household

  
  Nov 13, 2016
• The metabolic flows for Sydney, Australia in 1990

  
  Nov 12, 2016
• Abel Wolman's Metabolism of Cities

  
  Nov 11, 2016
• A comparative visualization of urban bike mobility

  
  Nov 10, 2016
• The copper balance of Taipei in 2009

  
  Nov 09, 2016
• The urban metabolism of Geneva in 2000

  
  Nov 08, 2016
• In-use product stocks drive anthropogenic material cycles and provide functions or services demanded by modern human society

  
  Nov 07, 2016
• Simplified value chain of a passenger vehicle

  
  Nov 06, 2016
• Global anthropogenic metallurgical aluminium cycle in 2009

  
  Nov 05, 2016
• Abatement curve to reduce or prevent GHG emission in the United States

  
  Nov 04, 2016
• Changing global trade and the digital revolution

  
  Nov 03, 2016
• The material balance of Ile-de-France

  
  Nov 02, 2016
• Melbourne Urban Forest

  
  Nov 01, 2016
• The urban metabolism of London in 2000

  
  Oct 31, 2016
• Analyzing spatial patterns of urban carbon metabolism: A case study in Beijing, China

  
  Oct 30, 2016
• Spatial distribution of the material stocked in buildings in Japan

  
  Oct 29, 2016
• Abbreviated Urban Metabolism for Beijing

  
  Oct 28, 2016
• The urban metabolism of Rennes

  
  Oct 27, 2016
• Nitrogen flows within different western European agrarian systems

  
  Oct 26, 2016
• Traffic Flow Change in Hong Kong

  
  Oct 25, 2016
• Flows of embodied GHG emissions related to Melbourne

  
  Oct 24, 2016
• Urban Metabolism of Bangkok for the year 2000

  
  Oct 23, 2016
• Interactive Urban Metabolism diagram of Paris

  
  Oct 22, 2016
• Inter-regional flows of embodied carbon emissions

  
  Oct 21, 2016
• The Urban Metabolism of Brussels in 2010

  
  Oct 20, 2016
• Consumption of direct and primary energy for three urbanisation forms in Kenitra

  
  Oct 19, 2016
• Final energy consumption and GHG emissions by sector for Brussels Capital Region in 2010

  
  Oct 18, 2016
• Representation of a sustainable metabolism for the Toronto Port Lands

  
  Oct 17, 2016
• General overview of Brussels urban metabolism in 2011

  
  Oct 16, 2016
• MetaFlow diagram for food

  
  Oct 15, 2016
• The urban ecosystem of Charleroi

  
  Oct 14, 2016
• The urban ecosystem of Kenitra

  
  Oct 13, 2016
• HDI/Population/Population Density of 155 cities

  
  Oct 12, 2016
• Abbreviated Urban Metabolism for Rio de Janeiro

  
  Oct 11, 2016
• Toronto household mass and energy flows

  
  Oct 10, 2016
• Hong Kong's material flows

  
  Oct 09, 2016
• In-use copper stocks in Cape Town

  
  Oct 08, 2016
• Urban metabolism of Toronto vs Hong Kong

  
  Oct 07, 2016
• Lisbon material balance

  
  Oct 06, 2016
• Glass packaging in New Jersey

  
  Oct 05, 2016
• One of the first urban metabolism illustrations

  
  Oct 04, 2016
• Imports into Hamburg

  
  Oct 03, 2016
• Material Flow Austria

  
  Oct 02, 2016
• The urban ecosystem of Brussels

  
  Oct 01, 2016

Inspirational examples

Below are some inspirational examples of data visualization techniques. These images are not related to urban metabolism, but they are nonetheless beautiful ways of visualizing data and are therefore included to provide some inspiration.

• Where we donate vs. disease that kill us

  
• Wood Building Technology Over Time: A Partially Comparative Timeline

  
• Live Wind Map

  
• The Vast Majority of Missing Workers Are Under Age 55

  
• The Flavor Connection

  

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