IS428 2016-17 Term1 Assign3 Heng Yi Teng Mabel

Visualization

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Data Cleaning

Building Data

I wanted to create a variable Floor/Zone so I used the Stack function in JMP.

Result:

Next, I used the Text to Columns function to create 3 new variables: Floor/Zone, Floor and Zone.

I did this transformation on all the building data, including the Hazium sensor data, and got the combined data file below.

Finally, I used Stack to combine all the Building Elements into one variable. A sample from the final data file is as shown below.

Sensor Data

I needed (x,y) coordinates for mapping on Tableau. The fixed sensor data, proxOut-MC2.csv, did not have coordinates. To assign them with coordinates, I uploaded the ProxZones floor plans onto Tableau (see section on Creating a Map for Sensor Data for more detail) and used the Annotate Point function to retrieve approximate coordinates for each zone.

For each zone I took 2 (x,y) coordinates. Next, I matched the coordinates to the fixed sensor data based on the variables Floor and Zone.

I then randomly assigned each record to a coordinate within the respective zones.

Next I used JMP to Join the fixed sensor and mobile sensor datasets based on timestamp, proxid and floor. I did this because I wanted to check if there were instances in which both the fixed and mobile sensors recorded the same activity.

In these cases, I chose to keep the mobile sensor data as it already comes with (x,y) coordinates. I then deleted the repeat fixed sensor data. Lastly, I combined all the sensor data into 1 dataset.

Visualization Process

Building Data

TBC

Creating a Map for Sensor Data

I first loaded the mobile sensor data, proxMobileOut-MC2.csv, into Tableau. On the Data Source tab, I changed the Geographic Roles for X and Y to Longitude and Latitude respectively.

Next, in a new worksheet, I dragged X to Columns and Y to Rows. However, we can see below that the data points are superimposed onto a default world map.

Instead, we want to upload a map of the floor plans for the building. First, I manually cropped the VAST_ProxZones_Fx.jpg files and removed the white spaces, leaving only the floor plan. The result is something like this:

Next on Tableau, I uploaded the images under Map. As there are 3 floors, I had to upload 3 different floor plan images and set different conditions for them.