ISSS608 2016-17 T3 Assign GUAN YIFEI Conclusion
VAST Challenge 2017:Mystery at the Wildlife Preserve
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Conclusion & Comments
Top 3 patterns
1) The trespassing service trucks we identified in 12.1. As explained, the movements by the trucks were the most suspicious among all the anomalies discovered. Further investigations are recommended to be conducted to find out what were they transporting in or out of the preserve – whatever it was, it would not be good for the preserve. Even the truck drivers were not hunting the birds directly, they might be transporting certain things that are harmful to the natural environments in the preserve, which in turn would affect the birds’ habitats.
2) The long stay duration car ID 20154519024544-322. This car recorded 281 visits to 10 gates, which shows a very suspicious loitering behavior. It could be moving around the preserve searching for something, could be the birds!
3) The movement of service trucks and sightseeing guests/coaches all night long. We observed that unlike the campers, the service trucks and sightseeing coaches move along the connecting paths all night long, going from one side of the preserve to another. The constant traffic at night might be a nuisance to the birds’ life, and caused the birds to migrate to other quieter places outside the preserve.
Besides the possible caused identified above, there is another area of concern – the fixed patrolling routine of the rangers. In our path analysis, we noticed that the rangers are working on fixed patrolling routes. It would be relatively easier for people with evil intentions to observe the patrolling routes and schedule, and plan their activities accordingly to avoid being caught. This might be a potential threat to the natural life in the preserve.
Comments
Your comment is welcomed and appreciated.Thank you.
1) Hi Yifei,
I love your whole design and analysis! The color theme is consistent and beautiful. Amazing visualization skills there!
The analysis is very deep into detail. And you also build a 360 degree dashboard for users to explore the data and play with different ways of visualizing it, which is very helpful for analysis.
Great piece of work. Learn a lot from your design! Like it! <3
Yuhui ZHOU
2） Hi Yifei,
very impressive piece of work. All questions are covered and clearly illustrated through your excellent job. Your analysis in this case has inspired me to think from a different angle and those hypothesizes you put forward looks quite conceivable to me.
For suggestions on your work, you may think about inserting a new worksheet allow you to check the car-id of each point on your viz work that draw your attention.
Overall, it’s really a nice way to reveal patterns. Great job!
Cao Bo
