IS428 AY2019-20T2 Assign NG JUN HONG

SMU Libraries Survey

Background

Every two years, SMU Libraries conduct a comprehensive survey in which faculty, students and staff have the opportunity to rate various aspects of SMU library's services. The survey provides SMU libraries with input to help enhance existing services and to anticipate emerging needs of SMU faculty, students and staff.

Objectives

With massive respondents' feedback obtain from the surveys. I am task to use visual analytics approach to reveal the levels of services provided by SMU libraries as perceived by the undergraduate students, postgraduate students, the faculty and the staff.

Information Gathering

Summarising data sets and planning for visualisation dashboard

Dashboard	Purpose	Variables Require	Measurement
General Information	This will be the home dashboard of the visualisation, to present general data of the survey's result. This include: Brief introduction of survey background, survey's questions Total respondents from different position - Undergraduate Y1/ Professor/ Staff and study area Frequency of libraries visits, campus visits, access of libraries resources Respondents that are exchange/local students	Campus, StudyArea, Position, ID, HowOftenL, HowOftenC, HowOftenW	Respondents input

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Interactive Visualization

The interactive visualization can be accessed here:https://public.tableau.com/profile/lim.kim.yong#!/vizhome/VA_Assignment3_Final6/Home_Page

Home Dashboard

The following shows the home dashboard:

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Employee Activity

The following shows dashboard:

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Power Consumption Dashboard

The following shows the Power Consumption dashboard:

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Exhaust Fan Dashboard

The following shows the Exhaust Fan dashboard:

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Chemical Dashboard

The following shows the Exhaust Fan dashboard:

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Now that we have created all the necessary dashboard, we are ready to use it as a platform to conduct our exploration and analysis.

Patterns & Anomalies

Findings from survey

S/N	Interesting Pattern	Significance
1	On floor 1 and 2, the bathroom exhaust fan is turn on continuously throughout the whole day. However, on floor 3, the bathroom exhaust fan power is only consuming power between 7am to 10pm.	Through this pattern, we can see that floor 1 & floor 2 does not comply with the energy efficiency standards. Knowing that energy are non-renewable resources and will eventually run out. Adopting best practices to conserve energy not only helps to conserve resources but also translates into cost savings.
2	In general, most energy usages were consumed within the corridor areas throughout all floors.	This is exceptionally bad for the company as the corridor spaces do not contribute greatly to employee's productive or efficiency. Furthermore, not only does it contributes to energy wastages, it causes the company to incur unnecessary costs. Therefore, management should come out with policies to curb such issue.
3	The server room at Floor 3, Zone 9 has been constantly using a huge amount of energy.	It is not surprising that server room usually consumed the largest amount of equipment power.Management should know such situation and make necessary energy efficiency measures so that resources would be deployed properly.