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IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligenceand Applications

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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.

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.

Bulgaria has some of the dirtiest air in Europe. It has the highest concentrations of urban particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) of all EU member states. The European Environment Agency estimates that three out of four Bulgarian citizens are exposed to concentrations of pollution above EU standards. This makes Bulgaria the country with the highest rate of premature deaths attributable to fine particles, with more than 13,000 premature deaths estimated per year.

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

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