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Cyber-security: you are in more danger than you can possibly imagine

Cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Coupled with the growing amount of data being generated by individuals, corporations and governments, well-orchestrated attacks could potentially cause major disruptions to any country, such as gaining access to national defense systems. According to David Koh, CEO of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency, Singaporeans are largely aware of cybersecurity threats but do not take the necessary precautions, which may be due to complacency stemming from Singapore's reputation as a safe country1. Hence, public education is still required to urge individuals into taking preventive measures. This project will contribute to that end by providing interactive and interesting visulisations of cyber-attacks that can engage members of the public.

1https://govinsider.asia/innovation/cyber-war-csa-singapore-david-koh/


  • Lim Yee Cheng
  • See Kwan Yen
  • Zheng Weijie Jay
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Analyzing World Energy Production & Consumption

For 66 years, the BP Statistical Review of World Energy has provided high-quality objective and globally consistent data on world energy markets. The review is one of the most widely respected and authoritative publications in the field of energy economics, used for reference by the media, academia, world governments and energy companies. A new edition is published every June.

Join us as we explore the rich data-set provided by BP & explore trends in energy production and consumption across countries through time.

  • Aakanksha Kumari
  • Amrutha Rajeshwari Yejerla
  • Priyanka Sharma

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Water For Life: An Analysis of Changing Rainfall Patterns Across India Through Visualizations


With growing fluctuations in climate in recent years, one occupation that has been affected the most is Agriculture. This has turned into a global concern and particularly in India where these climate changes have contributed significantly in the growing rate of farmers taking their lives.

In this study, we intend to analyse India’s rainfall patterns for past few years using Exploratory techniques. Over 80% of the annual rainfall is received in the four rainy months of June to September. There is great regional and temporal variation in the distribution of rainfall and although the monsoons affect most parts of India, the amount of rainfall varies from heavy to scanty on different parts.

The primary motive of our analysis is to scrutinize the effect of irregularities in the rainfall pattern on crop yield in agriculture sector in India and in turn attempt to discover any relation between the growing rate of suicides amongst farmers. Through our visualizations, we would like to derive meaningful insights that foster our understanding about how climactic changes have an influence on various factors including socioeconomic factors that might lead to these suicidal attempts.


  • Akanksha Shrirang Yadav
  • Jyoti Bukkapatil
  • Pooja Manohar Sawant

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Exploring Inequality’s Geographic Dimension Across Neighbourhoods in Singapore: Its Driving Forces & Touch Points

Amidst the recent debate over growing social inequality in Singapore such as the distinct clustering of elite schools and varying access to resources, the dangers of hardening social mobility can pose as a threat for a culturally diverse nation that has upheld its values of social cohesion and racial harmony. In bonding and bridging communities, Singapore has put in place various programmes in the community and schools to nurture shared experiences and promote inter-communities mixing. More recently, inequality was highlighted to have a geographic dimension even for a densely populated city like Singapore.

Using geospatial techniques in R, the dashboard serves to visualise whether geography is an important driver of inequality, by mapping the extent of social inequality and access to common spaces across neighbourhoods. This will be done via three approaches. First, we will analyse whether there exist clusters that could point towards social inequality and whether this is more pronounced in certain neighbourhoods, based on ethnic mix, age composition, and housing type. This will be done using choropleth mapping, spatial segregation index, and spatial points pattern analysis at both the subzone and dwelling unit level. Next, using the Hansen Accessibility Model, we will map out the available touch points within neighbourhoods that could facilitate social mixing, such as the ease of access to common spaces, amenities and opportunities for choice of education. This is because an important aspect of social inequality is having reasonably fair access to different resources. Lastly, by identifying centroids, we will move into solutioning and explore possible spaces such as vacant state land where upcoming public amenities can be best placed to optimise social class mixing.

  • CHAN EN YING GRACE
  • LIU YUQING
  • LIU YUANJING

Buy More! – Maximizing Sales

Taking advantage of data is key to ensuring the survival of an e-commerce retail business. Through the visualization of the spending habits of customers and the visualization of the results from various machine learning algorithms, insights can be gathered as to which customers the retailer should target and what type of products should be kept in-stock to maximize sales.

  • ZHANG Yingdi
  • FU Chuanjie
  • WANG Runyu

Make the Last Mile Count - Visualizing eCommerce orders to improve product distribution network and reduce delays

E-commerce represented 54% of U.S. sales in the third quarter for TV and web merchant QVC.com. QVC is one of the most successful TV shopping broadcasters worldwide, which is one of eight leading retail brands under the Qurate Retail Group, focuses on building customer relationship, to engage with them to discover a dynamic catalogue of products from a wide range of categories. QVC is committed to providing its customers with thousands of the most innovative and contemporary beauty, fashion, jewellery and home products. Customers are engaged via multiple channels, through social media like Facebook Live, proprietary platforms that focuses on specific product types and video commerce based on QVC’s television channel.

To stay competitive in this high-paced industry, QVC has to deliver the right products to the right person and the right time. First, we will visualize the network between warehouses and consumers to give an overview of the existing business. Then, we will identify if there are geographical gaps between existing product distributions and actual consumer demand by plotting proportional symbol maps of warehouse supply and consumer demand. Geospatial analysis of demand by product categories may uncover insights on which groups of products should be stocked together to maximise profits from customers. Lastly, we will perform time-series analysis to identify seasonality (if any) in customer demand. Through our web application, we aim to provide insights that could aid business users in planning and decision-making in the following aspects in inventory management, manpower planning and procurement planning.

  • Fu Yi
  • Orkhan Hasanli
  • Tan Yong Ying, Joanne

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Understanding gender equality from a visual perspective

With the improvement of quality of life across the world, the argument for various freedoms and rights surface and turn to hotly debated topics especially in highly developed countries. One such agenda is the push for the empowerment of women, amongst the fight against other forms of discrimination.

Given the growing importance on this area, our project seeks to encapsulate existing data and present it visually in a simple, understandable manner, to help further efforts in driving the agenda. Using graphical techniques complemented with some level of statistical modelling in R, our dashboard will provide a view on changing patterns in key indicators relating to gender equality and women empowerment with time, as well as attempt to highlight important variables which aid the growth of such indicators.

  • Low Zhi Wei
  • Shi Chen
  • Yi Xiaoqin

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Global Migration - Higher Walls or Wider Doors?

With the world shrinking by the day with technology and humans being more than ever ready to scale distances in quests to follow a career path or to escape political persecution and war or in search of better quality of life or to be closer to family or friends, Migration and the resulting ethnic and racial diversity are amongst the most emotive subjects in contemporary societies. In recent times, the political salience of migration has strongly increased due to uproar of natives and other factors. For origin societies, the departure of people raises concern about the 'brain drain' on the one hand. For receiving societies, the settlement of migrant groups and the formation of ethnic minorities can fundamentally change the social, cultural, economic dimensions and cause lack of resources for the natives.

Using R’s geospatial and network analysis techniques, we aim to delve into the migrant numbers data over the years from country to country conjoined with the remittances according to the world bank by them to the origin locations. Migration and remittance numbers will be analysed grouping the locations on continent, region and socio-economic status scales to identify relations between the factors separating the dominating and the dominated societies. This will be done using visual models employing quadrant analysis to visualize how the numbers have changed over the years due to varying push and pull factors according to the current world situations, flow mapping and creating a betweenness clustering and centrality index network model to solution the question on the profitability of migration from the eyes of the origin and destination societies.

  • Kaushik JAGANATHAN
  • Priyadarsan SHANKAR
  • SONG Xuejing
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Predictive Policing: The future can be seen

Crime is an act punishable by law that has been timeless and has been committed practically since the start of time. Crime analysis is required to reveal the complexities of crime records. The ability to predict the future crimes based on the location, pattern and time can serve as a valuable source of knowledge for them either from strategic or tactical perspectives. This process will help the law enforcement in identifying potential hotspots and implementing crime prevention strategies To predict future crime accurately with a better performance, it is a challenging task because of the increasing numbers of crime in present days, and erratic activity patterns. Therefore, crime prediction method is important to identify the future crime and reduces the numbers of crime.

For our analysis, we will be using the New York Police Department (NYPD) crime data for the City of New York. Through our analysis, we hope to provide a comprehensive overview of crime statistics in these 5 boroughs of New York City and illustrate the power of using this data for predictive policing for law enforcement agencies across the world.


  • Diya Naresh Rao
  • Nevil Bruno
  • Vishal Badrinarayanan

*Have the Nations really progressed?

For almost a hundred years, two measurements have been used to get a sense of how well a country is doing. One is GDP, the other is its unemployment rate. But when it comes to figuring out how well a country is serving its citizens; these two might not be the only metrics to gauge a nations collective progress. On estimates of social progress, poorer countries often outdo their wealthier counterparts. Social progress is not completely explained by economic variables like GDP data. It can show surprising relationships that help shape policy. One of the interesting ways these kinds of indexes are used is to see how countries have improved or declined – or just stayed the same. It can determine which countries get help with funding. And it may even be able to help predict the future.

Through our visualizations, we seek to utilize existing data to derive meaningful insights over how various socioeconomic factors have had an impact on development of different nations. Using graphical techniques in R, our dashboard will feature analysis on key indicators relating to financial, educational, gender, health, industry & demographic as well as attempt to highlight important variables which aid their growth.

  • Sudhir Panda
  • Lokesh Vairamuthu
  • Sameer Panda

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"The Earth is what we all have in common"

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 37 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. Most OECD members are high-income economies with a very high Human Development Index (HDI) and are regarded as developed countries. As of 2017, the OECD member states collectively comprised 62.2% of global nominal GDP (US$49.6 trillion) and 42.8% of global GDP ($54.2 trillion) at purchasing power parity.

Has all this progress come at a cost?

Join us on this data viz expedition as we uncover some startling facts.

  • Harisingh Khedar
  • Kiriti Yelamanchali
  • Suhas Awasthi

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  • Tong Wen Liang Samuel
  • Miko Tan Mei Jia
  • Kalai Selvi

Bird, Where Art Thou?

Animal migration has long received much attention as a research topic in biology. Information about animal movement serves to allow us to understand animal behavior and their interactions with each other and the environment. In addition, it allows us to address environmental challenges such as climate and land use change.

By understanding animal migration, it helps conservationists to conserve these animals through the protection of their habitats and their resources.

An interactive visual analytics approach could help to empower the scientific community and gain insights into the migration of these animals.


  • Chen, Pin-an
  • He Mengqi
  • Ong Wah Jie


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  • ALEJANDRO LLORENS MORENO
  • JIANG YILIN
  • LI HONGXIN

GeBiz: Who supplies to the needs of Singapore?

Government Procurement is the procurement of goods and services on behalf of a public authority. As per policy, the procurements need to be done through an issue of public Tenders to prevent corruption, wastage, and local protectionism. GeBiz is the Singapore government's one stop portal for the above purpose. The data of past procurements are made available for the public in the Data.gov.sg portal. It is difficult to identify bias in such data available that have multiple transactions. Since a transaction involves various levels of the government, the bias may not be obvious while looking at the issuing authority and the supplier alone.

We propose an approach which combines network analysis, association analysis, and visual analytics to make this process easier. Traditionally, Association analysis has been used to identify relations between products purchased together. It is also applicable to any data that follows the format of multiple entities and a common transaction that links them together. In our case, the entities involved are the issuing agency and the supplier. The current visualizations treat all entities involved to be of the same category, thus making the visualization less intuitive. We want to come up with a visualization that can overcome this limitation.

  • Joel Choo Peng Yeow
  • Manu George Mathew
  • Minami Yusuke

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  • Alagu Alagappan
  • Rupini Sinnan Chettiar Pandian
  • Vigneshwar Vadivel

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*The air quality in China

Like other countries, China has to date followed a pattern of grow first, clean up later. Many developed cities have serious environment problems. Particularly, in 2015, Beijing had experienced heavy smog for 6 months and severe polluted days for more than 1 month. Everyone was talking about air quality and health. In recent years, government has put the green development in the first place, so dose our air quality become better?

To understand the improvement of air quality of developed cities and the impact of air quality on the health of residents, we choose four first-tier cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou) and 15 new first-tier cities (Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Chongqing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Xian, Changsha, Shenyang, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Dalian, Dongguan and Ningbo) to analyze.

  • Chen Fan
  • Huang Yiyun
  • Xie Zhimao

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  • Vaishnavi Agarwal
  • Param Gadhaiya

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CricViz: Indian Premiere League

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  • Saurav Jhajharia
  • Gaurav Miglani

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  • Anthony Theodore
  • Aparajita Shukla
  • Vishali Reddy Nalla

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