giasen
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World Oil Consumption per Capita World Oil Production World Oil Reserves
World Oil Consumption by Country represented as foot height per barrel per day (divided by 10 to keep it from shooting off the screen) according to CIA Factbook.
So, for example, the 20,000,000 or so barrels per day consumed by the USA according to the CIA Factbook are represented as a 2,000,000 foot high red prism.
This file was last updated on 8 February, 2007
I find World Oil Consumption per Capita a better exhibit, however.
could use a little organizing... this was a quick & dirty output
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Edited by giasen (07/11/08 09:54 AM)
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This is brilliant, giasen! An excellent use of the technology and 5 stars from me for sure. Thank you for making this  
I don't know how much trouble this would be, but you know what I would find really interesting? Oil consumption per capita. In fact at first that's what I thought this was but then I noticed anomalies such as Switzerland using practically none compared to its neighbors etc and, of course, if the graphs show total consumption then that explains it.
Is it possible to do per capita?
Still, a great and very interesting file.
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Excellent!
Whoa look at America 
No surprise I guess...
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This is brilliant, giasen! An excellent use of the technology and 5 stars from me for sure. Thank you for making this
I don't know how much trouble this would be, but you know what I would find really interesting? Oil consumption per capita. In fact at first that's what I thought this was but then I noticed anomalies such as Switzerland using practically none compared to its neighbors etc and, of course, if the graphs show total consumption then that explains it.
Is it possible to do per capita?
Still, a great and very interesting file.
you took the words right out of my mouth. per capita would be even better and i know how to do it. i'll try to get it out on monday when i get back in the office. 
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Nice visualization.
From an economic point of view, you'll generally find educational value in looking at consumption vs. production.
In this case, countries use oil largely for energy and nationally, energy serves both lifestyle and commerce. On the lifestyle front, you'd expect to see that (a) more people leads to more energy use, and (b) that more developed countries use more oil per person (heating, cooling, lighting, etc.) Further, businesses use energy as an input in commercial activities. From this we'd expect to see that the more manufacturing, construction, shipping, etc., done in a country the more energy it will require.
One way to approach this with summary statistics is to compare energy use to gross domestic product or if available, gross measures of industry excluding "office-work" businesses. This comparison would implicitly include population as well, though disproportionately since highly developed countries have a greater number of persons active in commerce while less-developed countries have a greater number in agriculture.
In any case, it would be nice to see oil vs. GDP so that we can see what countries are efficient economic engines and which are not.
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Nice visualization.
From an economic point of view, you'll generally find educational value in looking at consumption vs. production.
In this case, countries use oil largely for energy and nationally, energy serves both lifestyle and commerce. On the lifestyle front, you'd expect to see that (a) more people leads to more energy use, and (b) that more developed countries use more oil per person (heating, cooling, lighting, etc.) Further, businesses use energy as an input in commercial activities. From this we'd expect to see that the more manufacturing, construction, shipping, etc., done in a country the more energy it will require.
One way to approach this with summary statistics is to compare energy use to gross domestic product or if available, gross measures of industry excluding "office-work" businesses. This comparison would implicitly include population as well, though disproportionately since highly developed countries have a greater number of persons active in commerce while less-developed countries have a greater number in agriculture.
In any case, it would be nice to see oil vs. GDP so that we can see what countries are efficient economic engines and which are not.
That is a good idea. I'll do the GDP next. I was trying to think of a good way to combine them but at the moment I can only think of showing them side by side. Maybe I'll do population too.
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Luigi_GEarth
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Great!
Nice work! It's very useful
Per Capita in fact should make more sense but it is still of great value!
By the way do you intend to do some other extension of this work? Natural gas? Proved Reserves?
Thanks!
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Gerardo64
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Hi Luigi
Here you have some more information about you are looking for.
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giasen
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Great!
Nice work! It's very useful
Per Capita in fact should make more sense but it is still of great value!
By the way do you intend to do some other extension of this work? Natural gas? Proved Reserves?
Thanks!
Hello Luigi,
I actually did also do per capita and it is located here:
world oil consumption per capita
I'm still working on making that tutorial...
And I would like to do extensions of this work. All I need is good data.
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Edited by giasen (08/09/07 11:36 AM)
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Mattelfesso
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This is a cool concept.
I think it might be visually misleading, however. Did you divide the national oil consuption by the geographical area of the country when calcuating the height? From a visual perspective the 'volume' of the elevations imply the volume of oil consumption (not the height). If not adjusted by area then smaller countries would be much shorter than they ought to be. For example if the U.S. were divided into 50 countries instead of 50 states (similar to Europe) the height would be 50 time smaller on average.
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