Artelys Introduces Future Sight: a Visualisation Tool Supporting the Energy Transition

Introducing: Future Sight, an open source interactive data-crawling tool to create full dashboards to supplement – or – create reports and showcases.

The tool, that originally was a simple dashboard for showcasing data to stakeholders, evolved into a user-friendly bridge between the public and the scientific community, allowing anyone to easily dive into the data behind the cogs and wheels, and produce quick visualisation in a few clicks. 

Figure 1 – A published result set with CO2 emissions and price of transportation of electricity comparing 4 models.

We had the pleasure of holding showcase sessions with members of the European Commission as well as members of the Polish government to garner feedback on how to perfect the tool for its communication purpose.  

Figure 2 – Simplicity of use, creation of a new graph for final energy in EU27.

What is hiding behind the hood of this tool, is a Node / React stack in typescript, using plotly as graph library, and a clever UI allowing any user to translate simple selection inputs and checkboxes to transform their ideal charts into a data query to our partner’s database, and plotly configuration for proper customisation of the chart.  

Figure 3 – Data selection to choose which region to filter in.

Figure 4 – Visualisation customisation showing evolution of percentage of primary energy.

The project is available on GitHub if you’d like to check it out or fork it for your visualisation needs. As the ECEMF Horizon 2020 project draws close to an end, Future Sight will find a home in new visualisation needs, such as Artelys Crystal Super Grid.