3. VISUALISING
FLIGHTS
VISUALISING
FLIGHTS
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
We want to visualise flight data and link this to
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• tourism and related expenditure,
• growth of airports
• tweets sent from airports.
Per continent. Through time.
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FLIGHTS
#twitteranalysis
If we could gain
assess to the
Twitter API:
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Analysis of tweets
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#airport
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Plot a tweet
density map
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If not globally
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#heathrow –
analysis
destinations
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FLIGHTS
VISUALISING
FLIGHTS
STEP 2: STANDARDISING THE DATA
.CSV FILES
.JSON FILES
.XLS FILES
• the different fields don’t match
• airplane data in vector format
• others have geo-cordinates
• we don’t know where airports have been open so we will
scrape data from DBpedia.
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We will use Python parsing and data structures to
standardise the data
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VISUALISING
FLIGHTS
STEP 3: CORRELATE THE DATA
• Airports opening v. Tourism (expenditure & people)
Tourism expenditure v. number of tourists
Airports opening v. Growth of country
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• Airline routes — per continent (in and out)
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• Graph and statistical analysis on routes:
Aim I: define the top connected areas per continent
Aim II: identify longest and shortest journeys
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STEP 3: VISUALISE THE DATA
Choropleth map
• growth of airports
• increase in tourism per country
Map of flight routes
• representing airports as nodes/deduce
linking airports and most visited cities
Articulation points graph
• most connected cities
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STEP 3: VISUALISE THE DATA
Statistical visualisation
• for a variety of our data
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Density map for tweets per
airport
• deduce the most social airport/
destinations of twitter users
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FLIGHTS
MISSION
Not just a visualisation of data, but a story with
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equilibrium of colours, proportions
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finding interesting correlations
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#sexybarcharts