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Assignment Dropbox

 


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

The Task

Task 1

Task 2

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


Assignment Q&A

Need more clarification, please feel free to pen down your questions.