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IS415 GeoSpatial Analytics and Applications

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Geospatial Analytics Project

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Overview

The purpose of the geospatial analytics project is to provide students first hand experience on building web-based geospatial analytics tool by integrating open source web mapping API(s), data visualisation API(s) and geospatial analysis libraries. You will also learn how to collecting, processing and analysing spatially related issues using real world data. Students are encouraged to focus on research topics that are relevant to their field of study.

The project is to be done in a team. You are required to form a project team of 2-3 members by the second week of the academic term. Each project team must start thinking about their project ideas after the first lesson. You are expected to discuss your project topic and scope of works with the instructor during the second or third week of the academic term. A project website must be prepared and uploaded to the course wiki page by the end of week 4.

Project Theme

Students are required to choose one of the following theme to develop the GeoSpaital Analytics Project:

• Spatial Point Patterns Analysis

• Geographical Accessibility and Spatial Interaction Models

• Flow and Movement Data Analytics

• Geographically Weighted Regression Models

• Analytical Regionalisation and Geographical Segmentation

• Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis

Please feel free to approach me for more details.

Project Milestone

• Formulation of project ideas: between week 2-3.
• Create project wiki page: by week 9 before lesson
• Update project wiki and interim project assessment: by the end of week 8
• Submission of project poster: 7th April 2019, at 9.30am
• Final project poster presentation: TBC
• Submission of final project paper, artifacts and update project wiki: 14th April 2019 at 11.59pm (mid-night)

Grading

The geospatial analytics project will count for 50% of your final grade in the course. The distribution of marks for each stage of the project are as follows:

• Project wiki 5%
• Project poster 10%
• Application solution 15%
• Practice research Paper 20%

The course instructor will consider strongly the novelty of the idea (If it has never been done before, you will get lots of credit!), how it addresses the problem at hand, the methodology you employ in doing the research, and your technical skill in implementing the idea.

In small group projects, each person will be graded individually. A good group project is a system consisting of a collection of well defined subsystems. Each subsystem should be the responsibility of one person and be clearly identified as their project. A good criteria for whether you should work in a group is whether the system as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts!

Project Presentation

Interim Project Presentation

A good way to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your project proposal is to present your ideas to your classmates for feedback. Thus, each group will be expected to initially present their project on week 8. The presentation should expand on the project proposal and include, but not limited to the following material:

• description of the problem and motivation, explaining why it is worth addressing.
• a background survey of related work and a list of references. Include the 2-3 most relevant pieces of prior work in your presentation.
• the approach the team plans to take to solve the problem and early prototypes or storyboards.
• post your full list of references to your wiki page.
• a list of the key technical challenges your group expects to face and a description (or storyboard) of the approach you plan to use to address the challenge.
• a list of milestones breaking the project into smaller chunks and a description of what each person in the group will work on.

The project teams should take advantage of this presentation as an opportunity to get feedback on the direction of the project from their peers.

Note: Before giving your presentation, you should update the project wiki page for your presentation submission, linked from your final project page. Be sure to include a Comments directive at the bottom of the page so that your classmates can share feedback. After giving your presentation, you should add a link to your slides and other presentation materials to this wiki page.

Townhall Poster Presentation

Date: 8th April 2019

Venue: GeoHall, Level 7, PSA Building.

Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm

We will organise a public presentation of the final projects. The presentation will be in the form of a poster session and live demo. You are required to bring a laptop with a working demo of your system. You should set up the laptop near your poster and use it to explain your project. During the presentation session, visitors and course instructor will view the various posters that are put up and pose questions to find out more details of the project. Be prepared to give a short 5-10 minute oral explanation and demo of what you did.

Deliverables

Project Wiki Page

As a first step, you should create a project page (in the form of a wiki page) that includes the names of the members in your group and a short (1 to 2 paragraphs) description of the geospatial analytics issues or problems you would like to address. Please refer to the last section of this page for instructions on making the wiki page for the geospatial analytics project.

Poster

The final poster should provide an overview of your project. It should include, but not limited to the following information:

• Issues and problems - A clear statement of the issues or/and problems your project addresses.

• Motivation - An explanation of why the issues and/or problems are interesting and what make them difficult to solve.

• Approach - A description of the techniques or algorithms you used to solve the problem.

• Results - Screenshots and a working demo of the system you built.

• Future Work - An explanation of how the work could be extended.

The poster will be in ANSI A1 size (22" × 34" or 559mm × 864mm). It has to be in jpeg format. Please ensure that the poster is in high resolution (at least 300 dpi).

The poster will be considered a final deliverable, so don't forget to apply good visual design principles to your poster as well as your project.

Note: The course instructor will be responsible for printing your poster. You are required to upload your posters to the wiki page of your project one week and your project Dropbox before the poster presentation.

Below are sample posters for your reference:

• Interactive Area Hotspot Detection [1]
• A City's Heartbeat[2]
• BussStop[3]
• Decrypting The Housing Prices In Singapore [4]

Final Deliverable

General

The final deliverable will include:

• artifact, an implementation of your system (source code and executable)
• an 8-12 page paper written in the form of a conference paper submission. The paper should present related work, a detailed description of your system and a discussion of your design.
• updated the geospatial analytics project wiki including all the links.

Practice Research Paper

The paper should include content that is typical of papers that appear at ACM SIGSPATIAL[5].

In particular it should contain:

• Introduction - An explanation of the problem and the motivation for solving it.

• Related Work - A description of previous papers related to your project.

• Methods - A detailed explanation of the techniques and algorithms you used to solve the problem.

• Results - How the geospatial analytics tool developed help to discover new understanding from the data.

• Discussion - What has the audience learned from your work? What new insights or practices has your system enabled? A full blown user study is not expected, but informal observations of use that help evaluate your system are encouraged.

• Future Work - A description of how your system could be extended or refined.

Below are sample papers for your reference:

• "DIVAD: A Dynamic and Interactive Visual Analytical Dashboard for Exploring and Analyzing Transport Data" [6]
• Tailor-made Exploratory Visualization for Statistics Sweden[7]

Paper format

The final paper should be in the style of a conference paper submission. It should be formatted using the 2 column formatting of papers that appear at ACM SIGSPATIAL[8]. A sample of the research paper template is available here‎ for your use.

Submission instruction

Your final deliverable is due (submitted to LMS Dropbox) by the end of the day on 14th April 2019 at 11.59pm (mid-night).

Sample Projects

Note that the following examples are for references purposes. You are urged to use your own creativity and innovation to design the application.

Past Year IS415 Projects

Year 2012-2013 Term 2 Projects:[9]

Year 2013-2014 Term 2 Projects:[10]

Year 2014-2015 Term 2 Projects:[11]

Year 2015-2016 Term 2 Projects:[12]

Year 2016-2017 Term 2 Projects:[13]

Year 2017-2018 Term 2 Projects:[14]

External Sites

• Department of Geography, NUS [15]

Q&A

Link to Q&A/Project Discussion