ISSS608 2017-18 T3 Assign Xie Zhimao Method

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Zhimao2.jpg    2018 Mini-Challenge 2 Method

Overview

Data Preparation

Visualization

Conclusion



Tools Description

  • SAS JMP Pro
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Tableau

No.

 Approach

  Description

1.

SAS JMP Pro
( Data Exploration)

  • Use SAS JMP Pro to open the metadata and check the ditribution and validity of the data.
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  • We found the missing data is 0 and there is no obviously unreasonable skewed distribution, so our initial clean step is complete.
  • However, when it refers to chemical units of measure, we noticed there are different units, such as mg/l and μg/l. Therefore, we need further data wrangling by use Microsoft Excel.

2.

Microsoft Excel
(Data Wrangling)

  • Use filter and pivot table function in Microsoft Excel extract out the data we need and rename them as revised value(μg/l).
  • Given thr geographical analysis we also record the geo-code of background image in the data file.Zhimao5.png

3.

  Tableau
(Data Analysis)

  • Import raw data into Tableau and inner join the geo-code.Zhimao6.png


  • From the view of trend change, we can oberserve there are two dramaticlly increase in both 2003 and 2009.
  • In addition, 2 locations were taken into consideration of sampling extraction site since 2009. Especillay in Tansanee, it always occupies the largest value of chemical contamination in recent years.
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  • To prove whether the Kasios Furniture Company caused environmental damage to the Boonsong Lekagul Wildlife Preserve, we select the sample from recent 3 years and combined them with the maps.
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  • To be specific, we would like to view the measure performances in different locations in a treemap.
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