ISSS608 2016-17 T3 ARUNKUMAR CONCLUSIONS

VAST MINI CHALLENGE 1

Data Exploration

Visualizations

Questions Answered

Questions

The questions to be answered in this VAST challenge are listed down along with the visualisations and some explanations.

Question 1

“Patterns of Life” analyses depend on recognizing repeating patterns of activities by individuals or groups. Describe up to six daily patterns of life by vehicles traveling through and within the park. Characterize the patterns by describing the kinds of vehicles participating, their spatial activities (where do they go?), their temporal activities (when does the pattern happen?), and provide a hypothesis of what the pattern represents (for example, if I drove to a coffee house every morning, but did not stay for long, you might hypothesize I’m getting coffee “to-go”). Please limit your answer to six images and 500 words.

Answer

Question 2

Patterns of Life analyses may also depend on understanding what patterns appear over longer periods of time (in this case, over multiple days). Describe up to six patterns of life that occur over multiple days (including across the entire data set) by vehicles traveling through and within the park. Characterize the patterns by describing the kinds of vehicles participating, their spatial activities (where do they go?), their temporal activities (when does the pattern happen?), and provide a hypothesis of what the pattern represents (for example, many vehicles showing up at the same location each Saturday at the same time may suggest some activity occurring there each Saturday). Please limit your answer to six images and 500 words.

Answer

The visualisation clearly indicates that the July is the month with heavy traffic and among different vehicles, 2 axle car is in the peak during July.

This visualisation reveals that certain campings are preferred more by the visitors during certain period of the year and there we can also see that some of the campings are rarely visited by the visitors. Campings 7 & 8 follow the kind of same trend over the year, camping 1 is the least visited with almost no activity during the whole year. Camping 4 has marked the peak time spend in January, followed by a dip in February and again a peak in march.

Given Chord diagram shows the movement of visitors between different locations over a period of one year.

Question 3

Unusual patterns may be patterns of activity that changes from an established pattern, or are just difficult to explain from what you know of a situation. Describe up to six unusual patterns (either single day or multiple days) and highlight why you find them unusual. Please limit your answer to six images and 500 words.

Answer

All the vehicles with these numbers have visited the preserve more than two times and is following the same route. This is an anomalous behaviour and maybe we can assume that they have some relation with the preserve like it can be a weekly patrolling police vehicle. Another noticeable anomaly is that a visitor has been stuck in the preserve, maybe he is changing from one camp to another as with the crowd.

Question 4

What are the top 3 patterns you discovered that you suspect could be most impactful to bird life in the nature preserve? (Short text answer)

Answer

The top patterns observed that could most probably affect the bird life in the preserve can be in certain month there are a hike in the number of camping people as well as high traffic this can disturb the natural habitat of bird life in the preserve.