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On 2nd March 2016, Today reported that the job market was "generally rosy last year for fresh graduates", with higher employment rates and better starting salaries, compared to the graduation batch of 2014.
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As a country with no natural resources, the government has always been vested in encouraging Singaporeans to reduce energy consumption and wastage in Singapore. For example, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has the energy label scheme which requires goods such as Air-conditioner, Refrigerator, Clothes Dryer and Television to be affixed with an energy label sticker depicting how much electricity they consume when used.
  
On the other hand in more recent news, it has been widely reported that the job outlook in Singapore is rather gloomy, with several industries hard-hit by the slower economy. In certain industries such as legal, this has been exacerbated by the influx of law graduates who pursued their degrees overseas, resulting in excess supply over demand. The banking and financial industry too, has seen a few retrenchments throughout this year.  
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More recently in August 2016, Singapore Power (SP) has redesigned the utilities bill in a bid to help fellow Singaporeans track and take steps to reduce their energy and water consumption.
  
For example, Goldman Sachs is planning to cut investment banking jobs in Singapore as part of its policy to reduce 30% of its operations in Asia. Amidst all these lows, there have been some bright spots, such as in the IT industry where there were about 15,000 vacancies unfilled, and growth expected over the next few years.
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While there are data and statistics available on the Energy Market Authority with regards to the energy consumption by household, it is in quite a raw form with no visualization to aid users in better understanding energy consumption in Singapore. The statistics or data provided also does not link to other factors such as the population demographics, which perhaps could provide interesting insights on the usage patterns of Singaporean households. As such. while these data exist, it is not being used to allow the public to visualize the energy consumption and to make sense out of it.  
  
It is with these in mind that the team wants to explore and study the employment data in Singapore and to gain a better understanding of the job industry and its outlook. The team seeks to find and seek co-relations of factors such as education level, specialization as well as market demands to see if there are any inherent patterns within a particular industry or sector.
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=Solution and Objective=
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Our solution is aimed at helping households to visualize the energy consumption patterns in Singapore in simple, easy to understand components and also to allow them to compare with other similar households(i.e by housing type). It will also suggest simple ways to help households conserve energy by referring to data on energy consumption so that users can enter how much they want to reduce their bill by and appropriate energy saving activities will then be recommended to meet the target set.
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At the end of the day, the solution aims to provide insights or trends to users with regards to energy usage patterns so that they can take action to reduce their bill at the end of the month.

Revision as of 16:03, 9 October 2016

Problem and Motivation

As a country with no natural resources, the government has always been vested in encouraging Singaporeans to reduce energy consumption and wastage in Singapore. For example, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has the energy label scheme which requires goods such as Air-conditioner, Refrigerator, Clothes Dryer and Television to be affixed with an energy label sticker depicting how much electricity they consume when used.

More recently in August 2016, Singapore Power (SP) has redesigned the utilities bill in a bid to help fellow Singaporeans track and take steps to reduce their energy and water consumption.

While there are data and statistics available on the Energy Market Authority with regards to the energy consumption by household, it is in quite a raw form with no visualization to aid users in better understanding energy consumption in Singapore. The statistics or data provided also does not link to other factors such as the population demographics, which perhaps could provide interesting insights on the usage patterns of Singaporean households. As such. while these data exist, it is not being used to allow the public to visualize the energy consumption and to make sense out of it.

Solution and Objective

Our solution is aimed at helping households to visualize the energy consumption patterns in Singapore in simple, easy to understand components and also to allow them to compare with other similar households(i.e by housing type). It will also suggest simple ways to help households conserve energy by referring to data on energy consumption so that users can enter how much they want to reduce their bill by and appropriate energy saving activities will then be recommended to meet the target set.

At the end of the day, the solution aims to provide insights or trends to users with regards to energy usage patterns so that they can take action to reduce their bill at the end of the month.