ISSS608 2016-17 T3 Assign GUAN YIFEI Visualization
VAST Challenge 2017:Mystery at the Wildlife Preserve
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Viz & Insights
The Daily Trends
1. The "most scenic route" of the park
Looking at the sequence by gate categories, the most commonly path adopted by the tourists is general gate 2-rangerstop0-rangerstop2-general gate. The traffic it remains active throughout the night. It seems this is the most scenic path of the reserve, which serves as one of the most famous place of interest for the reserve.
The gif below shows how the size of the traffic moved along the most scenic path of the park over the day.
2. Day Campers
• Day campers enters the park from 5am, since they are not staying over in the park, they cleared from the park by 18:00 when the sky is getting darker.
• Looking at the distribution of the most traveled path by the day campers, they mostly visited one campsite out of the 9 campsites. 70% of them will visit the most scenic path of the reserve (general gate 2-rangerstop0-rangerstop2-general gate1) before moving to the various camps. The rest will head to the camps directly.Among which, camp3 and 6 are the most popular camps of their choices, it could be attributed by the fact that the camps are located nearer to the entrances. Accessibility could be one of the considerations for the day campers in choosing their campaign locations due to the limited time they have in the park.
3. Extended campers
• The day for extended campers starts a bit later than day campers, from 6am on-wards. The time of exit for the also spread over a longer time range to 23pm
• Unlike the day campers, they tend to visit more than one camp site, or drive around the same camp site (represented by the adjacent orange blocks in graph of path by general gates. Also, unlike the day campers, they tend to settle down at the more secluded camp sites like camp 5 and camp 8, to enjoy a quiet night of sleep.
