Data Visualization Capstone: Proposal

Project Topic

My capstone project will be demonstrating the environment level for beach quality within the City of Chicago. This data is fascinating in a way where the wave height, water temperature and turbidity across different beaches in Chicago.

Box plots, scatter plots with trends and bar charts will be applied to compare between different beache’s parameters and estimate each beach’s condition.

Data Sources

The link for Chicago’s beach quality data is listed below:
https://www.kaggle.com/sveneschlbeck/chicago-beach-water-quality

Description of the Data

The specific detail are listed in the following bullet points.

• The time span is covered from Aug 2013 to Sep 2017 across
• 6 beaches were observed in the City of Chicago, IL of USA.
• Water temperature, turbidity, wave height, wave period were measured via the transducer sensor across the beaches in Chicago, IL
• 34923 rows of data were entered, but there are some missing data within the rows. Therefore data cleaning and re-arrangement is required to evaluate correctly.

The 10 variables are listed below:
1. Beach.Name: Name of Beaches in Chicago, IL
2. Measurement.Timestamp: Time which the sensor obtained data
3. Water.Temperature: Temperature data obtained from sensor
4. Turbidity: Purity of water based on sensor detection
5. Transducer.Depth: Depth level for the transducer sensor
6. Wave.Height: Height gathered from transducer sensor
7. Wave.Period: Wave period estimated from transducer sensor
8. Battery.Life: Battery life for the sensor level
9. Measurement.Timestamp.Label: Label for the measurement timestamp
10. Measurement.ID: Measurement ID serial

Ideas about the figures that you will create to visualize this data:

The following plots will be used to analyze the following data.

1. Box plot to compare distribution for water temperature across 6 beaches.
2. Box plot to compare distribution for wave height across 6 beaches.
3. Bar plot to compare the average turbidity across 6 beaches.
4. Scatter plot with smooth line for the turbidity distribution for 6 beaches.
5. Box plot to compare distribution of battery life for the sensors in beaches.
6. Bar plot to compare the average battery life across 6 beaches.
7. Wave Period Categories across different beaches.