Sankey Diagrams in Python for Energy Commodities Flows

A Sankey diagram is a visual representation of the categories and flow of quantities from one set of starting values to another set of end values. These diagrams are named after the Irish engineer Matthew Sankey who introduced the first such energy flow diagram in an 1898 article on the efficiency of steam engines [1]. … Continue reading Sankey Diagrams in Python for Energy Commodities Flows →

Visualising Energy Data with the Matplotlib Python library

The graphs below are a few simple visualisations using the Matplotlib library with the aim of showing how electricity generation in the United Kingdom has evolved in the last decade or so. Data were taken from official government statistics used in the annually published "Digest of UK Energy Statistics" reports [1]. This is my first … Continue reading Visualising Energy Data with the Matplotlib Python library →