Robin Hawkes

Senior Data Visualisation Engineer

Robin Hawkes leads the Data Visualisation team at Octopus. He's been involved in a number of projects that you might have seen, such as the Cosy Dashboard, Balance Forecast, Wasted Wind and his personal GB Renewables Map.

Before working for Octopus, Robin founded a startup called ViziCities, wrote a book about making games using HTML5 Canvas, and had his own spatial visualisation consultancy.

Robin is writing a fascinating series on telling stories with data. Check it out on his blog.

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The Octopus data visualisation engineer Robin Hawkes

A chaos project to silence the heat pump haters? I live for this shit

One morning in March, I got a message: Greg (yup, CEO Greg) wants a public dashboard showing the realtime data from our fleet of Cosy heat pumps. Oh, and it needs to be live before the end of next week. It’s exactly this kind of pressure that I and my colleagues thrive under. Let’s do this! Here’s a window into the beautiful chaos that followed as we made the Octopus Cosy Heat Pump Fleet Performance Dashboard. I’m Robin and I lead the Data Visualisation team at Octopus. I’ve been working here for just over four years and I’ve been involved in a number of projects that you might have seen, such as Balance Forecast, Wasted Wind, and my personal GB Renewables Map. This one — time-sensitive, highly transparent and something no energy supplier has done before — was right up my street.

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