ISSS608 2018-19 T1 Assign Chia Yong Qing
ISSS608_2018-19_T1_Assign_Chia Yong Qing: Air quality in Bulgaria
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Visual Analytics Individual Assignment
This wiki page is a deliverable for the module ISSS608 Visual Analytics.
Contents
Background
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. In this assignment, students are required to use visual analytics approach to reveal spatio-temporal patterns of air quality in Sofia City and to identify issues of concern.
Task 1: Spatio-temporal Analysis of Official Air Quality
Characterize the past and most recent situation with respect to air quality measures in Sofia City. Highlight any trends of possible interest for investigation, including anomalies and how they affect our analysis.
Task 2: Spatio-temporal Analysis of Citizen Science Air Quality Measurements
Using appropriate data visualisation, characterize the sensors’ coverage, performance and operation. Students are required to answer if sensor's well distributed over the entire city? Are they all working properly at all times? And detect any unexpected behaviors of the sensors through analyzing the readings captured.
Task 3: Explore other factors affecting air quality in Sofia City
Urban air pollution is a complex issue with many factors affecting the air quality of a city.
In this third task, students are required to reveal the relationships between factors e.g. local energy sources, meteorology, topography, transboundary pollution and the air quality measure detected in Task 1 and Task 2.
