Bloomberg Coal Countdown

Algo helped Bloomberg Philanthropies showcase, in video, coal plant closures around the world as governments transition from coal to clean, renewable energy sources. The Bloomberg Coal Countdown has been tracking & sharing data to help equip government, businesses, and financial decision-makers with free, transparent, and comprehensive data on the worlds progress toward phasing out coal power.

The brief was clear: turn the client's website data into a shareable video template showcasing a countrys state of usage of coal power & how its trending. Design-wise Algo wanted to instantly showcase changes in the burning of coal by a country. One way to achieve this was through the colour palette of each video being linked to the data, and it was picked among 5 color options in function of the country ranking in the usage of Coal (among 107 countries).

The data-viz studio designed the graphs of this project striking to be consistent & informative, no matter what values were displayed. The diagrams in the video showcased the % of coal plants closed, the countrys historic coal usage & how much coal is used as the nations electricity source.

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