Household in Alberta use more energy than any other province in Canada, according to data from Statistics Canada.
Below you will see the amount of total energy consumption of each province per household.
One question I cannot answer with my dataset is how much percent of income is a household with $20,000 annual income spending on energy compared to a household with $150,000 annual income. If I could locate a dataset—or information—detailing the breakdown energy rates for each province I could determine how much on average each household spends on energy. To find this data I would look at the Ministry of Energy for each province. In the event of not finding accessible data on each department's website I would file an FOI request.
Another few questions I am unable to answer with my dataset is why is Alberta’s energy use so high and why is Quebec’s so low? The dataset shows that Quebec has the highest use of electricity and Alberta has the highest use of natural gas. Does electricity use fewer gigajoules than natural gas or vice versa? Is Quebec’s energy consumption so low because of the efficiency of electricity? To find these answers will require more research on energy consumption in Alberta and Quebec. To find data that may help answer this I will use the Alberta Utilities Commission site and the Hydro Quebec site to find relevant information.
Hi Mel, interesting topic! Your visualization is easy to read and understand, but maybe could benefit from using a different colour to highlight your main point/lead sentence? It will be enlightening to see the reasons behind the difference between Quebec and Alberta, as you have said!
ReplyDeleteVery nice bar chart Mel. As said by Megan, your chart was very easy to read and hits the points. I think it would be have been cool if you could have defined energy (Electricity+gas for example). I would have made Alberta a different colour since you are drawing attention to it.
ReplyDeleteI like the topic you picked and the bar chart you created to visualize it. Maybe the chart would be a bit more clearer if you sort energy consumption from biggest to smallest and just color the cities that have the most consumption to make it even more obvious, what the most important thing about your data is.
ReplyDeleteHi Mel, i am curious too in finding out why Quebec energy's consumption is not as high as Alberta even BC. This is rather an interesting discovery. Keep digging, and hopefully you can answer those burning questions. Cheers
ReplyDeleteHi Mel, i really like your topic, because the energy consumption is a serious environment problem. but i still have so suggestion for you, your bar chart is totally with same color, i think you just can make it difference, that will look better. btw, i little bit curious about why Alberta is first, will it be effect by the heat use?
ReplyDeleteIn my own data chart I had omitted the "Canada" data as I didn't know if it was referring to a sum or an unspecified group. I think your chart could have used a color scheme to go from biggest to smallest.
ReplyDeleteGreat work here. Your question for further research of how much household income factors into energy consumption is very interesting. I look forward to seeing what you find out.
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