North Dakota's Fossil Oil Blast & Bust

Boom to Bust is a fascinating animated map visualization of the rising in addition to autumn of North Dakota's crude oil & gas industries. The map shows the amazing increment inwards North Dakota's crude oil & gas revenues starting fourth dimension inwards 2006 in addition to the subsequent autumn inwards revenues since 2015.

The map animates through the years from 2006 to March 2016. The scaled round off markers on the map demo the place of private crude oil wells. As the animation plays out yous tin run across the huge explosion inwards horizontal drilling in addition to hydraulic fracturing inwards North Dakota. This is particularly clear inwards the early on years inwards the timeline.

I intend the size of the markers on the map signal the monthly revenues from each well. I assume it doesn't demo the production rates of each well. The map sidebar explains that production rates convey continued to rise. The smaller circles at the halt of the timeline are thus presumably to create amongst the falling crude oil prices inwards recent years.

The information on the map was animated amongst CARTO's Torque.js library. Torque visualizations oftentimes cash inwards one's chips a lot of criticism for beingness naught to a greater extent than than flashing dots on a map. In Boom or Bust, however, the animated information is used actually good to say the compelling floor of North Dakota's crude oil economic scheme over the final decade.