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Group Members: Samuel Kajah, Kevin Kowalski, Vijay Vemu
Group Members: Samuel Kajah, Kevin Kowalski, Vijay Vemu
Link to Project:
Link to Project:
Here is the link to our completed Project 2
Here is the link to our completed Project 2
Link to Demo + Presentation:
Link to Demo + Presentation:
Here is a link to a 3 minute YouTube video which shows a demo of our project where we interact with the visualizations as well as the list of hurricanes we displayed:
Here is a link to a 3 minute YouTube video which shows a demo of our project where we interact with the visualizations as well as the list of hurricanes we displayed:
Here is also a link to our 5-minute project presentation, which gives a more in-depth look at what our website can do in terms of visualizations and filtering the data:
Here is also a link to our 5-minute project presentation, which gives a more in-depth look at what our website can do in terms of visualizations and filtering the data:
Description:
Description:
Our project is a very descriptive view of the impact hurricanes have made all around the world. In our visualization, we looked at how often hurricanes show up, how dangerous they can be in terms of wind speed and pressure, while also figuring out where they land or occur. We took data from two major oceans in the Atlantic and the Pacific then displayed them using numerous visualizations (maps and graphs) which are shown on our site.
The first thing the user can do is look at the two maps and five graphs/charts we created. There is one map for the hurricanes which occurred in the Atlantic and one for those in the Pacific. For each map the user can zoom in and out to view each hurricane up close while also letting you revert back to the original zoom setting (if they wander too far out of range). There are three different styles to view each map. The user can choose between the standard street map, a topological map (displaying terrain for each part of the world), and a map with just country/continent borders.
Each individual data point on the mapped hurricanes have a certain color attached to them, which is to show the pressure. The scale is shown on the bottom right of each map. The users can also see the name of each hurricane if they hover over each individual line. For some points on the map, the user can click on it and it will show the name along with the category it falls under (which is calculated by its max wind speed), the latitude and longitude points, along with its wind speed plus pressure. There is one more feature the user can play with and that's both maps can toggle into becoming heat maps. When the heat map is selected, the user can see where the most damage is done for each given ocean. The most bright red parts are places where category five hurricanes occurred while green and blue spots tend to be less violent in terms of wind speed.
As far as the graphs are concerned, we have five of them as mentioned before. At the top left are two line graphs for both pressure and wind speed respectively for a given year, which the user can choose on the left hand side of the website. Speeds/pressure for each hurricane are displayed on the graph and each line is given different colors to show the contrast or similarity for both oceans. There is also a bar plot showing the number of hurricanes which occurred after 2005. On the left of that is another bar graph showing how many of each category hurricane was recorded for a given year. Again the user can change the graph pending on what year they choose to filter the data. On the bottom and between the two maps we have one more graph showing the month in which hurricane was recorded for all the years given in the data set. For this graph however, the user can also interact with it by choosing their own range of wind speed and/or pressure to filter the visualization. The user can access these filters by clicking on the values tab.
The third and final thing the user can do with this site is choose what hurricanes to see. On the bottom left, we have displayed a list of all the hurricanes we used in each of our data set. The user can see the names of hurricanes from the Atlantic and Pacific only or they can see a combined list. There will be little checkboxes next to each name and if a name is changed, it will show up on each of the maps and some of the graphs such as the month one. The user can personally select individual or multiple hurricanes to show in the maps or graphs depending on how they see fit. They can filter on their own in the list itself or by choosing one of the three tabs.
If the user clicks on the Time tab, they can filter the lists by Year or date in which the hurricane occurred. If the Values tab is chosen, they can filter the hurricanes by how fast the wind speed is, the amount of pressure, or they can even choose by which hurricanes made contact with land. There are three main options with in that tab. The last tab, which is called the Filter tab, gives us even more ways to display the data in different ways. Here, the user can see a list of all the hurricanes since 2005, select all the hurricanes in the data to be shown on the maps and visualizations, or they can select the top 10 according to a certain category (wind pressure and speed). Or they can deselect all the hurricanes and now show any. To add on to this, we also allow the user to change the way the list is shown. The user can show the list alphabetically, chronologically, max speed, or minimum pressure. The top 10 button works with any of those four options.
Finally, there is an About button available near the top of the web page where the user can access the data directly as well as the names of who created this project along with the RStudio packages we used to change the data and create the visualizations.
Below is a screenshot of our website and how it would look in the EVL room if we presented it in class:
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