Sixes: Proposal Version 1

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PROBLEM & MOTIVATION

Every year, more than 480,000 people die due to tobacco-related diseases. That is around 1 in 5 of all deaths annually. It is estimated that 1 in 2 smokers will die from a smoking-related disease. This interactive data visualization tool shows modeled trends in smoking prevalence worldwide. Our aim is to reveal perspectives of smoking and correlates, determinants and consequences about smoking with visual analytics.


OBJECTIVES

In this project, we are interested to create a visualisation that helps users perform the following:

  1. View the geographical distribution of smokers from recent years
  2. Share of perniciousness attributed to smoking
  3. Reveal the trends of smoking and other perniciousness attributed to smoking of specific area or countries, while compared to worldwide value, to bring to attentions for both individuals and countries.


SELECTED DATASET

Datasets are retrieved from https://data.unodc.org/#state:1
The data set describes the annual prevalence of use of drug in 2016:
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BACKGROUND SURVEY OF RELATED WORKS

There are many charts and visualisations available which illustrates the various trends of house prices and index. We have selected a few of these to study and learn before we begin developing our own visualizations.

Related Works What We Can Learn

https://dataunodc.un.org/drugs/prevalence_map Related Work.png

  • Heatmap is an explicit way to show the goegraphical distribution of data.
  • The breakdowns shown upon hover give further details without distracting the audience at the first glance.
Map of annual seizures

https://dataunodc.un.org/drugs/seizures_map%7C Related2.png

  • Filter is essential to hide unnecessary data when only a group of data is focused.


PROPOSED STORYBOARD
WIP
Proposed Layout How Analyst Can Conduct Analysis


KEY TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

The following are some of the key technical challenges that we may face throughout the course of the project:

Key Technical Challenges How We Propose To Resolve
Unfamiliarity of Visualization Tool Usage
  • Independent Learning on Visualization Tools
  • Peer Learning
New to R and Javascript
  • Attend R Workshop
  • Self explore on R & Technical Tools
  • Peer Learning
Data Cleaning & Transformation
  • Work together to clean, transform and analyze the data
  • Documentation to keep track of changes


PROJECT TIMELINE

The following shows our project timeline for the completion of this project:

Sixes Timeline.png


TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES

The following are some of the tools/technologies that we will be utilizing during the project:

  • Excel
  • Github
  • Tableau
  • R

WIP


REFERENCES

WIP


COMMENTS

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