IS428 AY2019-20T1 Assign Wei Ming DataTransformationAnalysis
Mini-Challenge 1: Crowdsourcing for Situational Awareness
Preliminary Data Analysis
Geographic Information
St. Himark is subdivided into 19 neighborhoods. Infrastructure provided includes sewer & water, roads & bridges, gas, garbage, healthcare and power, of which 72% is provided by the Always Safe Nuclear Power Plant located at SAFE TOWN (Neighborhood 4).
St. Himark has an exceptional network of 8 hospitals, located at PALACE HILLS (Neighborhood 1), OLD TOWN (Neighborhood 3), SOUTHWEST (Neighborhood 5), 2 of them at DOWNTOWN (Neighborhood 6), BROADVIEW (Neighborhood 9), TERRAPIN SPRINGS (Neighborhood 11), SOUTHTON (Neighborhood 16).
Report Data 1. Data Description
The data for MC1 includes one (CSV) file spanning the entire length of the event, containing (categorical) individual reports of shaking/damage by neighborhood over time. Reports are made by citizens at any time, however, they are only recorded in 5-minute batches/increments due to the server configuration. Furthermore, delays in the receipt of reports may occur during power outages.
mc1-reports-data.csv fields:
- time: timestamp of incoming report/record, in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
- location: id of neighborhood where person reporting is feeling the shaking and/or seeing the damage
- {shake_intensity, sewer_and_water, power, roads_and_bridges, medical, buildings}: reported categorical value of how violent the shaking was/how bad the damage was (0 - lowest, 10 - highest; missing data allowed)
2. Exploratory Data Analysis There are 83070 report records in this file.
