Energy Map Development

Overview

Ruby on Rails application
- Gems required: rails, fastercsv
- Gems recommended: mongrel, capistrano, termios
- Installation guides: Mac OS X Ubuntu Linux

Would love to see the building number and an actual number somewhere when I click on a building
Timeline slider seems a little sluggish when I try to drag it somewhere
- This happens when svg is displayed on the screen; if you resize to only show the timeline, then it scrolls smoothly
Add an overlay that grays out the map and says "Updating" or "Loading" When we are
Figure out people's buildings from their IP and pre-highlight in the map
Add a note about the timespan for which we have data under the date slider
MIT Red hr's and vertical rules

East Campus dorm ids are lumped "62,64" in CdrLines but are separate in Building and svg map
Map: numeric axis labels show in Camino but not Firefox

SVG map
- Change building colors based on energy intensity (W/area)
  - Add more intermediate colors to the linear gradient
- Autocomplete box to select a building
- Pan and zoom for navigating svg map
Tag cloud of building id's with font size related to energy use (categorical example and alphabetical example)
xy plots of energy data
- Energy trends over time x:Time y:Watt-hours,Watts,Watts/area (working in ziya, use Google Finance as example)
  - Implement in dojo or flex
- Repeated time periods overlaid, ie x range is day, week, month, year and several days, weeks, etc. are plotted on top of each other to better compare them
- Temperature vs. energy
- Gapminder-like bubble plots
Interface for uploading detailed building data
- Types of lighting/windows in a given room, results from an audit
- Questions or discussion by community
- Nice to have some comments, RSS feed to subscribe to (ie. subscribe to my building)
- Should it be a blog, bulletin board, unmoderated white space?