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To be a Visual Detective
The assignments require you to put the concepts, methods and techniques you had learned in class to solve real world problem using visual analytics techniques. Students should also use the assignments to gain hands-on experience on using the data visualisation toolkits I had shared with you to complate the assignment.
Contents
Overview
Air pollution is an important risk factor for health in Europe and worldwide. A recent review of the global burden of disease showed that it is one of the top ten risk factors for health globally. Worldwide an estimated 7 million people died prematurely because of pollution; in the European Union (EU) 400,000 people suffer a premature death. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) predicts that in 2050 outdoor air pollution will be the top cause of environmentally related deaths worldwide. In addition, air pollution has also been classified as the leading environmental cause of cancer.
Air quality in Bulgaria is a big concern: measurements show that citizens all over the country breathe in air that is considered harmful to health. For example, concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10 are much higher than what the EU and the World Health Organization (WHO) have set to protect health.
Bulgaria had the highest PM2.5 concentrations of all EU-28 member states in urban areas over a three-year average. For PM10, Bulgaria is also leading on the top polluted countries with 77 μg/m3on the daily mean concentration (EU limit value is 50 μg/m3).
According to the WHO, 60 percent of the urban population in Bulgaria is exposed to dangerous (unhealthy) levels of particulate matter (PM10).
The Task
Task 1: Spatio-temporal Analysing of Official Air Quality
Task 2
Task 3
The Data Sets
Four major data sets in zipped file format are provided for this assignment, they are:
- Official air quality measurements (5 stations in the city)(EEA Data.zip) – as per EU guidelines on air quality monitoring see the data description HERE…
- Citizen science air quality measurements (Air Tube.zip) , incl. temperature, humidity and pressure (many stations) and topography (gridded data).
- Meteorological measurements (1 station)(METEO-data.zip): Temperature; Humidity; Wind speed; Pressure; Rainfall; Visibility
- Topography data (TOPO-DATA)
They can be download by click on this link.
Visualisation Software
To perform the visual analysis, students are encouraged to explore any one or a combination of the following software:
- Tableau
- JMP Pro
- Qlik Sense
- Microsoft Power BI
One of the goals of this assignment is for you to learn to use and evaluate the effectiveness of these visual analytics tools.
Submission details
This is an individual assignment. You are required to work on the assignment and prepare submission individually. Your completed assignment is due on 8th October 2017, by 11.59pm mid-night.
You need to edit your assignment in the appropriate wiki page of the Assignment Dropbox. The title of the wiki page should be in the form of: IS428_2017-18_T1_Assign_FullName.
The assignment wiki page should include the URL link to the web-based interactive data visualization system prepared.
Reference
- IS428 2016-17 Term1 Assign3 Gwendoline Tan Wan Xin
- IS428 2016-17 Term1 Assign3 Lim Kim Yong
- IS428 2016-17 Term1 Assign3 Tan Kee Hock
Assignment Q&A
Need more clarification, please feel free to pen down your questions.