ISSS608 2016-17 T1 Assign3 Aditya Hariharan

Overview

DinoFun World is a typical modest-sized amusement park, sitting on about 215 hectares and hosting thousands of visitors each day. It has a small town feel, but it is well known for its exciting rides and events.

One event last year was a weekend tribute to Scott Jones, internationally renowned football (“soccer,” in US terminology) star. Scott Jones is from a town nearby DinoFun World. He was a classic hometown hero, with thousands of fans who cheered his success as if he were a beloved family member. To celebrate his years of stardom in international play, DinoFun World declared “Scott Jones Weekend”, where Scott was scheduled to appear in two stage shows each on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to talk about his life and career. In addition, a show of memorabilia related to his illustrious career would be displayed in the park’s Pavilion. However, the event did not go as planned. Scott’s weekend was marred by crime and mayhem perpetrated by a poor, misguided and disgruntled figure from Scott’s past.

While the crimes were rapidly solved, park officials and law enforcement figures are interested in understanding just what happened during that weekend to better prepare themselves for future events. They are interested in understanding how people move and communicate in the park, as well as how patterns changes and evolve over time, and what can be understood about motivations for changing patterns.

Data Set

The Dataset used for the analysis was taken from elearn and contains the following:
Movement Data of the visitors
Communication Data of each of the visitors

Theme

The purpose of this analysis is to answer three basic questions related to security in the area and the unfortunate event that took place on the "Scott Jones Weekend":-
1.) Identify the IDs that stand out for their large volumes of communication. For each of these IDs
a) Characterize the communication patterns seen
b) Based on these patterns, hypothesize about these IDs
2.) Describe communication patterns. Characterize who is communicating with whom, when and where the communication is happening.
3.) From this data, hypothesize when the vandalism was occuring.

Task 1

From the images above we can see that two nodes stand out for the amount of communication that has been done comparatively speaking. These nodes are 1278894 and 839736.
Movement data shows us that these have been done from the same exact location and have no movement. All communication has been done from one of the entry corridors.

The extreme number of messages being handled by these nodes indicated them as part of the park information authority or the Cindysaurus Rex Trivia Games' puzzle blast to all of the park's visitors.
While node 1278894 handles an average of more than 40k incoming and outgoing messages all the while replying within 5 minutes of each message, 839736 handles an average of 5k+ data per day on all of the three days.

Task 2

Pattern 1: The first pattern we can notice is that the maximum amount of communication happens from the wetland region on all of the three days