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ISSS608 Visual Analytics and Applications

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Project Team	Project Title/Description	Project Artifacts	Project Member
Group 1	Understanding traffic patterns using network graph visualisations The project aims to illustrate the power of visual analytics in highlight patterns exhibited by vehicles when traversing through various traffic corridors. By linking the information captured in RFID tags when vehicles move through checkpoints, an interactive application is designed. This will help to unravel insights such as frequently travelled corridors, preferred routes amongst vehicles, traffic density, etc. The application will be primarily developed using R, and specifically the versatile ggraph package, which helps to develop powerful network visualisations. ggraph has been chosen as it is a recent release (Feb 2017), that exhibits the power of R and the ggplot architecture in incorporating network visualisations. Though ggplot tools have existed to visualise network patterns previously, the use of this package helps in making neater visualisations that help the user understand better. The motivation for this project stems from the traffic accumulation key problem found in most cities. Though the dataset pertains to a set of vehicles travelling through a wildlife preserve, the ideology can be applied to planning of roads and associated establishments. Urban planning needs to cater to robust planning of vehicle corridors to minimise disruptions in flow, and improve productivity. The interactive application helps the user understand linkages between various points in a predefined vicinity. The timestamp information of vehicle passages present in the data helps to understand various parameters such as traffic density, preferred corridors for vehicles and their speeds. The application devised here is also aimed to support the traffic authorities to identify what other alternative corridors might exist for reaching from Point A to point B. In addition, network measures such as the betweenness, the connectivity and closeness of various nodes, are also provided.	Proposal	Kishan Bharadwaj Shridhar Ong Guan Jie Jason Zhang Yanrong
Group 2 - Team ADA	Analysing Rise in Temperatures and Its Causes Globally Through Interactive Visualizations Climate change and global warming are material and contemporary issues that are gaining traction from countries all over the world. Global citizens of all ages and economic backgrounds are faced with unwanted effects of climate change today. As the buzz around global warming continues to increase, this contemporary issue has incited many relevant visualisations. Through this project, we analyse the key contributors to climate change namely: Fossil fuel consumption, adoption/rejection of renewable energy, electricity consumption, deforestation rate, and greenhouse gas emissions. The residual impact of these factors to facilitate the rise of global temperature has been captured for 86 countries around the world. While most contemporary visualisations focus on individual environmental hazards such as increased rates of carbon emissions or the rapid rise in temperature, our analysis attempts to connect the dots to better understand the cause-and-effect nature of global warming. Through our visualisations, we depict the causal effect between the factors which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting impact on increase in temperature from the year 1990 to 2012. Furthermore, we attempt to forecast the aforementioned causal effects and the net rise in temperature for ten subsequent years to better understand the variation in each factor over time.	Proposal	Akangsha Bandalkul Angad Srivastava Dipti Kalyandurgmath
Group 3	Smart Mall Application: Visual Application Design for Brick-and-Mortar Retailers With growing popularity of e-commerce and online shopping, traditional brick & mortar retail malls are facing stiff challenge to reinvent itself with unique preposition. Also as part of the Smart-Nation drive and transformation, retail malls can and needs to leverage on this digital transformation journey. In this connected era, shoppers are actively leaving their digital footprints, and hence they can be tracked just like on-line customers. Retail malls are able to gather this data from Wi-Fi. Along with the typical transaction data gathered from daily operations and customers profile data obtained from loyalty programs, how can we bridge the information and re-produce the shoppers journey? And how can visualization techniques assist in deriving insights and forming business strategies? This project attempts to develop an interactive application to visualize the movement and traffic flow in the mall and how it relates and translate with members’ profile, dwell duration & transactions spend.	Proposal Poster Application Report	CHEN YUN-CHEN CHIAM ZHAN PENG ZHENG BIJUN
Group 5	Why did the migrant cross the road? As a phenomenon, migration is not new, and people have been moving from place to place since the dawn of time. Migration could be either permanent or temporal. The causes of migration are varied, ranging from social, political, to economic reasons. Theories of migration tend to focus on push-pull factors of source and destination countries. However, any migration flow is both a product of these factors as well as the relevant immigration policies of regulating cross border flows. Given all these factors, it is difficult to study the determinants of migration. Currently, attempts at visualising migration flows are more descriptive than analytic, focusing on the flows (particularly on the type) rather than the reasons for the flows. Examples range from general migration data, to refugees, and even human trafficking flows. There have also been attempts to visualize migration using proxies, such as tax return data and remittance data. We developed an analytical framework to explore determinants of migration i.e. how the attributes of source and destination countries are related to in and out migration rates of these countries . Using R/Shiny and other packages, we attempted to integrate bilateral migration flow data with data describing the characteristics of both source and destination countries, drawing data from the World Bank, the Polity IV dataset, and measures from the Hofstede’s Cultural Dimension Theory. This culminated in the design of an analytical dashboard that allows users to perform exploratory data analysis to aid policy and academic research on migration.	Proposal Poster Application Report	CHEN Xiaoqing Vincent Mack Zhi Wei David Ten Kao Yuan
Group 7 - Trench-coat Detectives	Geo-spatial analysis of vehicle movement data to uncover patterns and detect anomalies Geo-spatial analysis is a subject of growing interest owing to numerous reasons - but a clear driver is data availability and data accessibility. The rise of the sensors and IOT era has made data capture by independent organizations and bodies plausible and this improves accessibility to movement data which was earlier limited to usage by government bodies and leading researchers. Our study utilizes data from a Natural Preserve to explore vehicle movement patterns. The scope includes the analysis and visual representation of frequency related findings such as ‘peak and non-peak periods’ and route related findings such as ‘path navigation through the preserve’ with the aid of interactive dashboards. The primary framework used for analysis and visualization is rShiny. There are several packages in R that enable us to create a seamless interactive interface for connecting and exploring the data. We have incorporated calendar heat maps to understand the peak and non-peak cycles across months, day of the weeks and hour of the day. This has enabled us to plot all the movement data over time on a single view. The patterns and trends identified can be used to drill down for further exploration. The route taken by the vehicles was explored using Sunburst diagrams. This has been used to view a summary of the paths taken and understand the more popular paths. Common destinations and starting points can be easily identified and compared. The interactive dashboards have been developed to accommodate the analysis of other sources of movement related data to retain reusability of dashboards and extend its usage for other purposes where deemed suitable. Future works can include incorporating speed related elements in analysis.	Proposal Poster Application	Anuthama Murugesan Krutika Balveer Choudhary Sumalika Kodumuru
100px	Even though Zika virus has been identified as early as in 1940s, it wasn't widely reported till it outbroke rapidly in south America in 2015. In Singapore, the first case was found in August 2016. Within 2 months, there are more than 400 cases identified locally. In this project, we will exam spread pattern of the Zika virus, are there any relationship between the weather or geolocation and the spread of this virus.	Proposal Poster Application Report	Ye JiaTao Yang YuWei Chen YiFan
Group6	World Happiness Visualization In philosophy, happiness refers to the Greek concept of eudaimonia, and reflects the good life, or flourishing, rather than simply an emotion. In addition, numerous factor could affect mental happiness which would largely influence people's overall well-being especially in today's high-stressed world, therefore, careful investigation and analysis is meaningful. According to the 2017 United Nation's World Happiness Report, Singapore is the happiest country in Asia. To add value to the data collected in World Happiness Report, which only provides plain text, R is used together with rShiny to interactively visualize 150+ countries’ happiness level and happiness related factors, including economy, health, family, freedom, trust and generosity etc. Moreover, this data vis could show details and insights of the selected dataset interactively according to different levels: global, region and individual country level. The application built for this project could enable different stakeholders gain more insights for global happiness levels and probably help the local governments of countries better understand the happiness level of their citizens in order to make their countries a happier places to live in.	Proposal Poster Application Report	HE Lingfei MAO Chenxin WANG Yingbei
100px	Performance Decomposition of China Listed Firms In recent years, terrorism attacks in the western world are the centre of focus and receive extensive reporting. However, terrorist attacks in the Middle East, South America, Africa and South Asia often receive much less attention or totally neglected. This creates a perspective that is far from the truth. We aim to present a holistic picture of the global terrorist attacks: across time, countries, targets and methods, to help the viewers have a better understanding of terrorist attacks in various countries during different periods of time. As such, we have built an interactive dashboard visualisation that showcases the changes in terrorist attacks from 1985 to 2016.	Proposal Poster Application Report	Wei Yunna Chen Yinjue Xu Yue
100px AnalyTweets	Visualising Twitter: Hashtags and User Mentions Network Twitter is described as the SMS of the internet. When key events occur, knowing the buzz from an information network such as Twitter tells you the present. Our aim is to visually analyze the association of #tags, representing a key idea, with @mentions.	Proposal Poster Application Report	Kuar Kah Ling Meenakshi Gopalakrishnan Parikshit Mayee
100px	European Football Visualization One of the most popular sports worldwide is football. Football can be considered as the most favourite sport in the world, especially in Europe. The motivation of this project is to discover interesting findings about the top 4 leagues in Europe. (England, Spain, Italy, Germany)	Proposal Poster Application Report	Frandy Eddy Franky Eddy Aditya Hariharan
100px	IMDb The project aims to enable the user to explore various aspects of IMDb data set through interactive visualization tools and techniques.	Proposal Poster Application Report	Abhinav Ghildiyal Agrim Gairola Vishal Bansal
100px	R Application to Project Singapore’s Historical Rainfall Data Singapore has made great efforts in making government agency data easily accessible to everyone and this project aims to make use of such government data and transforming it to an easily consumable form for the general audience. The group is tapping into the historical rainfall data from the website of the National Environmental Agency of Singapore and using various library available in R to project how rainfall data collected from various weather stations in Singapore can be used to project the rain experienced over a specific time period using Geospatial Analysis. By coming up with an application the team hope it could provide an example on how open source resources can augment the vast government data availability to share meaningful insights to both to public and private organizations.	Proposal Poster Application Report	Arunkumar Chavarukulangara Rajan Josef Carlo Exconde Sandeep Challa
100px	Video Game Analytics Vgchartz.com, is a video game sales tracking website that provides weekly sales figures of console software and hardware by region. The site was launched in June 2005 and is run by a small team of ten. Presently, users find the visualizations time consuming, difficult to comprehend and navigate.	Proposal Poster Application Report	Zhang Jinchuan Li Nanxun Chris Thng Ling Jingting
100px	A View at HDB Car Parking System The HDB car parking system in Singapore is a very mature one. This project aims to visualize this car parking system. The various types of car parking are understood and visualized. These car parking systems are broken down area-wise and block-wise and visualized using various tools and visualizations such as hierarchical tree and sunburst diagrams.	Project Home Page Proposal Poster Application Report	Arcchit Mittal Mukund Krishna Ravi Shishir Pravin Nehete
100px	A View at HDB Car Parking System The HDB car parking system in Singapore is a very mature one. This project aims to visualize this car parking system. The various types of car parking are understood and visualized. These car parking systems are broken down area-wise and block-wise and visualized using various tools and visualizations such as hierarchical tree and sunburst diagrams.	Project Home Page Proposal Poster Application Report	Arcchit Mittal Mukund Krishna Ravi Shishir Pravin Nehete
Group 15	Characterising Pandemic Spread Using R A pandemic is an epidemic or outbreak of infectious disease that spreads rapidly not only to many people, but across countries. The unprecedented mobility of people and food over the last 30 years has seen a steady increase in the frequency and diversity of disease outbreaks. No country is immune to this growing global threat. Scientists are predicting that it is not a matter of if, but when the next pandemic will happen. Singapore, as a small city state, with the highest population density in the world and one of the highest air passenger traffic, is particularly vulnerable. There are reasons to remain optimistic, as Singapore’s SMART Nation initiatives and modern healthcare systems’ electronic records have open up new possibilities in the fight against potential infectious disease outbreaks in the country. Data will be increasingly ubiquitous as the world, including Singapore, continues to make significant advancement in the digitalisation age. Insights from the data have the potential to offer a critical line of preparedness needed through early identification, rapid effective response, and containment of disease outbreaks. Using R programming to analyse a synthetic dataset (i.e. computer- and human-generated data) relating to a major disease outbreak that spanned several cities across the world in 2009, we have developed a visualisation tool and deployed it as an interactive dashboard prototype via R Shiny. This visualisation tool can potentially be used by health officials to analyse the hospitalisation data and characterise the spread of the pandemic across countries should an actual disease outbreak happen. We have demonstrated the capabilities of this visualisation tool through the use of calendar heatmap, trellis plot and other new visualisation graphing methods. The efficacy of each of these visual analytics techniques will be discussed in detail. We will also suggest possibilities for future works by combining hospital records with other data sources. [VAST Challenge 2010 - Characterisation of Pandemic Spread]	Proposal Poster Application Report	Chua Gim Hong Huang Liwei Ngo Siew Hui
100px	A View at HDB Car Parking System The HDB car parking system in Singapore is a very mature one. This project aims to visualize this car parking system. The various types of car parking are understood and visualized. These car parking systems are broken down area-wise and block-wise and visualized using various tools and visualizations such as hierarchical tree and sunburst diagrams.	Project Home Page Proposal Poster Application Report	Arcchit Mittal Mukund Krishna Ravi Shishir Pravin Nehete
	The Indian Story This project aims to explore the census dataset published by the Government of India on the literacy rate for state and city levels. This data grouped by gender, age groups and education levels of the Indian population. Our team, through the aid of visual geo-plotting, intends to find out interesting insights on literacy. The end objective is to create a dashboard on R that will the give the user the ability to interactively visualise the data and find out areas and groups of Indian population that needs to be targeted to improve literacy rates across the country.	Project Proposal Data Preparation Poster Application Report	Mandi Luo Priyadarshini Majumdar Sandhya Vasudeva Rao
	Airlines Network in India For a developing country like India, transportation infrastructure is one of the most important indicators for its economic growth. They form the backbone of tourism industry, support movement of goods and people across the country and hence drives the country’s economic growth. Roadways, railways and airways are the major means of transportation in India, however the contribution of airways is small as compared to that of the other two. With the coming of the Narendra Modi government, the civil aviation sector is growing at a rapid rate and with the shift in the govt policy there is expectation of addition of several low-cost private air service providers in the region. These players often offer competitive pricing and thereby driving the air traffic. Understanding of these transportation system is important for many reasons of policy, administration and efficiency. In the past, several studies have been purposed for WAN (worldwide airport network) where it was observed that the most connected nodes are not necessarily the most “central” nodes through which most of the shortest path goes. The reason for this was suggested as geo political constraints. India being a democratic country having 100's of political parties may follow this trend as far as airport network in India is concerned. Our project aims to find out whether this hypothesis is true.	Proposal Poster Application	Debasish Behera Manish Mittal Roger Ganga Sundaraja
	Stock evaluation and portfolio decision Stock is one of the common investment methods for HNWI (High Net Worth Investors). Traditionally, the visualization of different stocks is just line charts showing the price or the trend of the stock. However, with the development of visualization technologies, investors now may ask more for the stock graphs. This project tends to work out a visualization solution for stock investors by providing more analytical and interactive functions. There are mainly three modules in our visualization application. The first module is about the fundernebtal analysis of the stock strating from a treemap of analysis of the industries, followed by a interative stock candlestick chart. Investors can also have the comparison of two stocks in terms of some key ratios and have a stock forecast graph. The second module is about the analysis of the correlation of stocks and the third one is about the portfolio decision.With all these three modules together, investors may find it helpful for their stock analyzing.	Project Home Page Proposal Poster Application Report	Jiaqi Zhang Xintian Liu Hongjun Qian
	A Visual Application for Better Business Decision Making: Combining Association Rule Mining with Network Analysis Association rules mining (ARM), also known as Market Basket Analysis (MBA), was developed based on the simple yet powerful concept of statistics—probabilities. It is being widely used to find out the combinations of items that people are more likely to purchase together. ARM helps us to identify groups of variables that are highly correlated, to observe the behaviors that tend to occur together and to analyze the combination of variables are likely to result in the occurrence of another event. In our application, we aim to extend the adoption of this simple yet powerful concept to different business domains, on different datasets, for the user to have a better understanding of his/her current business situation, before making decisions for the future. A network analysis is included in the application to better visualize the interactions among the different occurrences of events. Besides the conventional Market Basket Analysis, our application can be used to analyze different business scenarios similar to below examples: Pharmacosurveillance: which drugs with adverse-effects tend to be purchased together? Sentiment analysis: which combination of key words in the reviews tend to lead to higher/lower review rating? HR analytics: which combination of signs indicates higher probability of employee leaving? E-Commerce: which links or pages the customer tend to click/browse before making a purchase? The application was made interactive with R Shiny and Shiny Dashboard for the users to calibrate the model and explore the model statistics before choosing his/her interested associations for analysis.		Bo Cao Yuhui Zhou Yifei Guan

Project Groups

Please change Your Team name to your project topic and change student name to your own name

Team	Members
Investigation of vehicle traffic corridors using visual analytics	Kishan Bharadwaj Shridhar			Ong Guan Jie Jason			Zhang Yanrong
Global Warming: A Tale of Rising Temperatures	Angad Srivastava			Akangsha Bandalkul			Dipti Kalyandurgmath
S-MALL	Chen Yun-Chen			Chiam Zhan Peng			Zheng Bijun			Ghost Lin
Group 4	Akanksha Mittal			Sivagamy Balamourougane			Sanghavy Balamourougane
Group 5	Vincent Mack Zhi Wei			Chen Xiaoqing			David Ten Kao Yuan			Student name			Student name			Student name
Group 6	HE Lingfei			MAO Chenxin			WANG Yingbei
Trenchcoat Detectives	Anuthama Murugesan			Krutika Balveer Choudhary			Sumalika Kodumuru			Student name			Student name			Student name
theArules	Cao Bo			Guan Yifei			Zhou Yuhui
The Indian Story	Luo Mandi			Sandhya Vasudeva Rao			Priyadarshini Majumdar			Ghost			Ghost			Ghost
visualizeR	Eric Prabowo			Asmit Adgaonkar			Shuo Zhang			-			-			-
Group11 TripleY	Wei Yunna			Chen Yin Jue			Xu Yue			--			--			--
Group 12	Arunkumar Chavarukulangara Rajan			Josef Carlo Exconde			Sandeep Chala			--			--			--
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Group 15: Characterising Pandemic Spread Using R	Chua Gim Hong			Huang Liwei			Ngo Siew Hui			--			--			--
Group 16	Jiaqi Zhang			Xintian Liu			Hongjun Qian			Student name			Student name			Student name
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Group 18 - Intelligent Airlines Network	Debasish Behera			Manish Mittal			Roger Ganga Sundaraj			Student name			Student name			Student name
Group 13	Rishi Tandon			-			-			-			-			-