CAO BO PatternSummary

ISSS608 Visual Analytics and Applications_Vast Challenge_Mini Challenge1

Background

Data Preparation

Visualization

Pattern Summary

Comments

Question1: Daily Patterns

Time

General Active Hours

1) Most of the visitors start their journies from 5 am and leave at 19 pm, with peak hours for visiting is roughly between 8 am to 17 pm.

2) There is no fully closed hour for this natural park, visitors get access to the entrances whenever they want.

Active hours for park service trucks

1) The active hours for park service trucks mainly focus between 6 am and 6 pm, while they have a different working schedule by weekdays. From Sunday to Saturday, rangers taken one more hour for rest except Friday.

2) As for the camping service time for those trucks, they only serve after 6 am and finish their works in campgrounds at 22 pm.

Active hours for campers

Most of the traffic detected in campgrounds happened between 5 am to 22 pm which is the opening hours for those campgrounds except camping4.

Area

Active areas for no-campers

Those visitors who just pass through the preserve called no-campers, including 2 axle bus, 3 axle bus, and 4 axle trucks, namely the oversize vehicles. Records showed in gate-sector mean those 4-axle tricks trespassed into the campgrounds which will discuss in unusual patterns.

Route

List of checkpoints & routes by traffic Load

Following list the most popular checkpoints and checkpoints by their traffic loads, those 7 checkpoints and 6 routines show clear differences with other ones in traffic loads.

Checkpoints:

1. General-Gate7
2. Ranger-Stop0
3. Ranger-Stop2
4. General-Gate2
5. General-Gate1
6. General-Gate4
7. General-Gate5

Routines:

1. General gate2<->Rangerstop0
2. Ranger stop0<->Rangerstop2
3. Ranger stop2<->Generalgate1
4. General gate4<->Generalgate7
5. General gate4<->Generalgate1
6. General gate5<->Generalgate2

List of routes for passing through

Those vehicles that just pass through the preserve follow some certain routes as listed:

• Entrance0<->entrance3
• Entrance2<->entrance4
• Entrance1<->general-gate7<->entrance3
• Entrance0<->general-gate7<-> general-gate4<-> entrance1

Question2: Multiple Days Patterns

Peak Season

The traffic size increase happened since May when the weather is getting warmer, and then reach the peak in July.When the weather is getting colder, the number of visitors decrease and then rise again till the next May in 2016.

Traffic size by Weekdays

More visitors during the weekends. The number of visitors( mainly contributed by 2 axle cars/motorcycles, 2 axle trucks and 3 axle trucks) increased on Friday and drops by the end of weekends

Campground preferences by weekdays

1) Camping 1 is the least choice for camping while the camping 5 is the most popular one.

2) More visitors tend to go for a camping in weekends rather than weekdays.

3) People spend longer time in the campground in weekends rather than weekdays.

Rangers'daily routine

Generally speaking, Ranger's patrols following some certain routes as well as time arrangements.

1) the most frequent routes for Rangers is (ranger base-gate8-general gate5-gate3-ranger stop3-ranger stop3-gate3-camping8-general gate3-gate4-ranger stop5-ranger stop5-gate4-gate5-ranger stop6-ranger stop6-gate5-gate8-ranger base), which has been patrolled for 156 times in one year. (2 times the second frequent routes of Ranger)

2) Ranger will not stay in every single range stop over 1 hour.

Question3: Unusual Patterns

SuspectNo: 20154519024544-322

Doubtful point1: This ID has 16 times of Episode(which means it has entered and then leave the natural park for 16 times.

Doubtful point2: This ID always passes through the enter the park in afteroon and leave in the midnight

Doubtful point3: This ID always enter the camping after 10 PM.

Doubtful point3: This ID always follows the same routes for 15 times(except for the first time): enter from entrance 4 on the fisrt day, stay in the camping4 till midnight of the third day and then leave via entrance 4.

Doubtful point4: This ID always stays in the park for 3 days, from Friday till Sunday and leave on Monday.