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PROBLEM & MOTIVATION

Drug trafficking is a global illicit trading involving the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sales of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws. The consequences of illicit drug use are widespread, causing permanent physical and emotional damage to users and negatively impacting their families, coworkers, and many others with whom they have contact. Singapore will continue to maintain a tough stance and step up efforts in fighting against drug, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam, during a marathon session of parliament on April 30, 2017. With Singapore geographical proximity to the Golden Triangle, Singapore is a major transport hub and is vulnerable to drug syndicates.

OBJECTIVE

With this project we aim to create visualizations that will allow the easy visual analysis of the following:

	Mighty Morphine Power Rangers wants to explore the current drug route and be able to draw some observations on the different drug routes taken, methods used to conceal the drugs, the most active region and the most active day of drug trafficking.
	Which day of the week has more drug traffic? Is the traffic more or less on certain days? Why? Which mode of transport is more widely used? Which drug? When is the down period / when is the up period of drug trafficking?

DATA SOURCE

Datasets are retrieved from https://data.unodc.org/#state:1
This dataset provide a detailed information of each drug seizure:
Data Information

REFERENCES TO RELATED WORK

Screenshots	What we can learn
Interactive Filled World Map Source: link	Example shows the different intensity of percentage of the population affected by drug abuse and the total number of drug abusers as shape circle. Pros: Able to see an general picture of the drug landscape. Visually appealing and straightforward. Cons: Unable to drill-down for more detailed information. Some parts of the world are not properly represented.
Stacked Distribution Pipeline Source: link	Example showcase a beautifully designed stacked bar, showing the ratio of revenue brought in by each type of drug that fuels the different types of activities at the right end of the chart. Pros: Gives the viewer a clear idea of what this chart is about. Easy to understand and highly customisable. Cons: Too high level. Viewers might miss the fine details because of the colour.
Price OHLC Source: link	Example shows the price level, high and low for a type of drug along the years. Pros: A detailed view of the price level along the years. Easy to understand. Cons: Viewers who do not know how to read this chart might misinterpret the values. Not highly customisable.
Drug Prevalence Boxplot Source: link	Example shows the prevalence of a drug abuse in each country Pros: Many information on one chart. High level and low level view of information. Cons: Not straightforward, need time to digest the information. Chart might need filters to help summarise the data.

PROPOSED STORYBOARD

Screenshots	What we can learn
MAP	Example shows the different intensity of percentage of the population affected by drug abuse and the total number of drug abusers as shape circle. Pros: Able to see an general picture of the drug landscape. Visually appealing and straightforward. Cons: Unable to drill-down for more detailed information. Some parts of the world are not properly represented.
BUBBLE	Example showcase a beautifully designed stacked bar, showing the ratio of revenue brought in by each type of drug that fuels the different types of activities at the right end of the chart. Pros: Gives the viewer a clear idea of what this chart is about. Easy to understand and highly customisable. Cons: Too high level. Viewers might miss the fine details because of the colour.

KEY TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

Inexperienced with data visualisation tools

• Self learning through youtube and practices.
• Peer learning

New to D3.js and Javascript

• Attend D3.js workshop.
• Self explore the various D3.js examples.

Data cleaning and transformation

• Team effort
• Documentation to keep track of changes.

PROJECT SCHEDULE

TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES

These are the tools and technologies that we will be learning and implementing for this project:

REFERENCES

• https://data.unodc.org/
• https://golearn-archive.unodc.org/olat/raw/static/unodc/cube/attempts.html#
• http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/data/stats2017_en
• https://d3js.org/
• http://www.chartjs.org/

OUR TEAM

Group 7:Mighty Morphine Power Rangers

Fan Kaiyang	Mark Ng Wei Jie	Gary Quek Jian Zhang

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