IS428 2017-18 T1 Assign Low Kang Li
Overview
Mistford is a mid-size city that located at the southwest of a large nature preserve. Mitch Vogel, a post-doc student who studying ornithology at Mistford College. He found out that the number of nesting pairs of local popular bird, Rose-Crested Blue Pipit is decreasing. The decrease is sufficiently significant that the Pangera Ornithology Conservation Society is sponsoring Mitch to undertake additional studies to identify the possible reasons. Mitch is gaining access to several datasets that may help him in his work, and he needs someone who is experts in visual analytics to help him analyse these datasets.
Mitch Vogel was immediately suspicious of the toxic gases that released from the smokestacks of the four manufacturing factories south of the nature preserve. He was almost certain that all manufacturing factories are contributing to the downfall of the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit bird. However, all the company representatives and workers seem to be nice people and very concern to the environment when he was talking to them.
In fact, Mitch was surprised that all factories had recently taken steps to make their processes more environmentally friendly, even though it increased their cost of production. Mitch found out that the state government has come out with a set of sensors that distributed around the factories, and set between the smokestacks in the city of Mistford and the nature preserve to monitor the gaseous effluents from the factories. Mitch has the access right to the state’s air sampler data, meteorological data, and locations map. Hence, Mitch needs someone who is good at visual analytics to help perform an analysis for him.
