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IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence

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Project Team	Project Title/Description	Project Artifacts	Project Member
Precision Policy And Planning	Enhancing the exploration of Policy and Planning with Visual Analytics With Singapore’s growing population and limited resources, she faces many pressing challenges for progressive development and economic growth. These challenges span across housing affordability, rising healthcare, aging population, education/income inequality, and low birth rates. For Singapore to continue progressing, it is key to view these problems from different angles, shapes, and sizes to find innovative solutions. With the government’s effort of making socially relevant data public, we were inspired to use this data to build a visual analytics application to enhance the exploration of policy and planning. This visual analytics platform will largely be based on the 5 yearly Singapore population census data and uses several time series and map-based charts to manifest the different population trends. By using charts such as brick-map, ternary plot, and horizontal network chart, we will enable the user to interactively explore large amounts of data in a much more interpretative manner. This will help them identify key trends to get new ideas for policies and smart city planning.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Ng Jun Hong Choy Yu Min Justin Jiang Xi
Rain & Shine	Visualising the Weather Climate of Singapore The weather reporting of Singapore has always been primitive and does not provide in-depth insights to the viewer. Although the weather in Singapore does not seem to be an essential part of everyone's lifestyle, the weather can play an important role in affecting one's health. Dr. Muhammad Eeqmal Hassim, a senior research scientist with the MSS Centre for Climate Research Singapore mentioned that “When temperature and humidity get high enough, our bodies struggle to cope. We get higher heat stress levels and it can be quite lethal for us.” In 2019, multiple media companies reported that Singapore is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world. When combined with the island’s constant high humidity, it could be life-threatening. Professor Matthias Roth of the department of geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS) attributed the rising temperatures to global warming and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. However, there was no data given to back up their claims on the changes in Singapore's weather. Our team aims to present Singapore's weather data in more user-friendly and meaningful interpretation ways. Through our user-friendly dashboards visualization, we hope to provide users in-depth insights, to identify the trends inherent within the weather data available and answer questions regarding the changes in Singapore's weather from available historical data.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Chua Ming Yu Guo Lingxing Tanny Lai
DevBuzz	Visualizations and insights of software industry In recent years, there is massive growth in the software industry. In order to help prospective coders, such as ourselves, to better manage their expectations and make more informed decisions, it is crucial for them to understand what is in demand and also what to expect from this booming industry. Our project aims to provide a one-stop tool for users to have a glimpse of the current software industry so that they can better understand what are the skills and tools that are in demand and how they may be related to salary and job satisfaction.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Ang Wei Xuan Dion David Chow Jing Shan Peh Anqi
Anti-Suicide Squad	Visualize the underlying patterns behind suicide Close to 800 000 people die due to suicide every year, which comes up to one every 40 seconds according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Suicide is a global phenomenon, present in many countries and is pervasive to people from all walks of life. In the last 45 years, suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide and is now the second leading cause of death among young people after road injury. Every life is precious. The numbers in the dataset was once a person who took their own lives, and had a ripple effect affecting their loved ones, family and friends. Our group would like to analyse factors such as gender, age, generation and GDP per capita to better understand the demographic of those who are likely to commit suicides, so that organisations such as Samaritans of Singapore or even schools and companies can identify those that are of higher risk and take measures to mitigate the likelihood of suicides for those people.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Sherry Tao Shi Hua Tian Mingze
No Game No Life	Visualizing the trends and pattern of video game sales The video game industry has grown massively over the years, with $2.3 billion in sales in the US alone in 2019. However, the industry has also shown signs of stagnation, with a 19% decline in sales from the previous year. With an increasingly saturated market and disruption caused by mobile and VR games, we aim to create an interactive platform to understand the trends of the industry and come up with insights to aid future and existing developers.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Darren Sim Neo Tee Yong Alyssa Rinelli
Growth Signal	Visualizing Sales Funnels for eCommerce websites to optimise marketing spend Rapid advancement of technology over the past few decades have brought forth many opportunities and convenience to mankind. In the world of businesses, especially marketing, it is extremely important to use various numbers and metrics to quantify and evaluate the standpoint of the company. This is made possible with the discovery of big data, analytics, AI/ML and the likes of data visualisation. "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." — Peter Drucker In this era, many companies in the marketing department rely on platforms such as Google Analytics to track their businesses. However, problem arises when they advertise across multiple channels, such as Facebook, Instagram, Email, and possibilities are endless. Decentralisation is one problem. Ironically, although Google Analytics houses large amount of data, oftentimes they do not provide useful and actionable insights relevant to the company. Hence, users are overloaded with the wide variety of data available that are reflected by a vast number of charts of which some can be complex and nugatory (i.e. chartjunks). To save time (sieving through chartjunks) and boost a marketer's productivity, we aim to develop a data visualisation dashboard that serves as a one-stop solution where users can derive knowledge and uncover insights required to judge the company's success. This will thus help them drill down to the root causes and take necessary actions.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Daniel Soh Lim Si Ling Kang Hui Yun
WE ARE TEAM HIVA	Visualization and insights of HIV in the United States HIV/AIDS, a chronic manageable disease, is a global pandemic that has created unprecedented challenges for physicians and health infrastructures. There is no cure for HIV yet. However, treatment can control HIV and enable people to live a long healthy life. Our project aims to provide visualizations for the public to better understand the extent of the problem. We also aim to show the importance of treatment by analysing links between seeking treatment and death rate.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Nicholas Tan Jun Hao Ong Li Ting Yip Jian Ming
Wolf of HDB Street	Visualizing HDB Resale Flat Prices & High value estates As a buyer looking for Resale HDB flats, it can be difficult to make a purchase decision due to the lack of information in the market. Information such as increasing or decreasing price trends over the years for each estate (e.g. Tampines) or submarket (e.g. 4-ROOM flats) could be essential in the decision making process. Current tools available in the market are insufficient to supplement this decision making process as they can be unnecessarily detailed resulting in the inability to conduct a high level analysis (e.g. Price trends for each submarket and/or estate). Our project aims to provide a one-stop visualization tool that allows Resale flat buyers the flexibility to switch between high level and funneled down views so as to make better purchase decisions.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Aaron Sim Huei Min Arino Ang Jia Ler Shivika Khemka
Purple Haze	GDP per Capita vs Air Quality and The Effectiveness of Environmental Policy We aim to show the relationship between GDP per Capita and air quality through our application. Does a higher GDP per Capita mean more pollution? Does an increase in GDP per Capita come with more air pollution? We aim to show this data across countries using a map visualisation in our application, along with time series data showing the timeframe of policy implementation and air quality as well as rises and falls in GDP per Capita.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Jordy Nelson Samuel Parbat Shreyas Gabriel Chuan Zhan Hong
Impex	Visualizing the Imports and Exports of Singapore's Foreign Trading Singapore has long been the key transport hub in the ASEAN region. However, global developments such as the trade war between the US and China, and events closer to home such as Thailand building the Kra canal may shift the balance out of Singapore’s favour. It is key to correctly strategise in such uncertain times. We aim to be able to create new insight and actionable strategy as to how Singapore can maintain its position as a key transport hub.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Cerulean Melanie Tan Ryan Wong
WeHouse	Visualizing HDB Resale Pricing Trends & Understanding its Characteristics In the past, Singaporeans would turn to the primary source giver of Resale housing information which is known as The Housing Development Board (HDB) to understand the changes in the housing real estate. With the advent of Singstat and other public domains of data, there are other various visualisations online that Singaporeans seek guidance from to understand the Housing situation in Singapore. Our Team has identified numerous types of visualisations available online that provide varying pieces of information for Singaporeans to view and make a judgement of the Resale housing market. In this project, we would like to re-innovate the various visualisations and piece together key valuable insights that can be easily retrieved and evaluated by Singaporeans. With the use of Singstat data and Tableau Mapping possibilities, together with other visualisation aids, we propose to construct an all-in-one application.	Proposal Poster Application Research Paper	Koh Teck Yun Lu ZhiMao Rachel Lim Pao Ling