EPC_data_analysis

Analysis of the EPC dataset

You can use this repository to faciliate the analysis of the EPC dataset.

Example Application: Wales

As a first application, we analysed the CO2 emissions and housing energy efficiency of properties in Wales, with a special focus on differences across sectors (social rental, private rental and owner-occupied). The full report can be found here. Have a look at the following Jupyter Notebooks in this directory EPC_data_analysis/analysis/notebooks/:

• General Wales EPC Analysis
• Visualisation with Kepler

You can check out some EPC visualisations here.

Data

You can find and download the entire EPC dataset from here.

Ongoing and Future Work

• Analysis on the entire UK

• Cleaning of EPC free text features

• Kepler Visualisation: Normalisation by density

• Integration of data from different years

• And much more...

Setup

Before getting started, meet the data science cookiecutter requirements, in brief:

• Install: git-crypt and conda

• Have a Nesta AWS account configured with awscli

# Get the repository
$ git clone https://github.com/nestauk/EPC_data_analysis.git

# Setup
$ cd EPC_data_analysis
$ make install
$ conda activate epc_data_analysis

# Prepare input data
$ make inputs-pull
$ unzip "inputs/EPC_data/all-domestic-certificates.zip" -d inputs/EPC_data/.

# If Kepler.gl is required
$ pip install keplergl