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Tarea4-Task4.2

Homework 4.
Laura Cortes 201326232
Anamaria Mojica 201316580

For the analysis:

What:
Table:
categorical attributes.
categorical attribute.

Items: each row represent the environmental performance index (EPI) for 178 countries with the respective ranks, and features listed below:

  1. EPI Score
  2. 10-Year Percent Change
  3. Environmental Health
  4. Ecosystem Vitality
  5. EH - Health Impacts
  6. EH - Air Quality
  7. EH -Water and Sanitation
  8. EV - Water Resources
  9. EV - Agriculture
  10. EV - Forests
  11. EV - Fisheries
  12. EV- Biodiversity and Habitat
  13. EV - Climate and Energy
  14. Child Mortality
  15. Household Air Quality
  16. Air Pollution - Average Exposure to PM2.5
  17. Air Pollution - Average PM2.5 Exceedance
  18. Access to Sanitation
  19. Access to Drinking Water
  20. Wastewater Treatment
  21. Agricultural Subsidies
  22. Pesticide Regulation
  23. Change in Forest Cover
  24. Fish Stocks
  25. Coastal Shelf Fishing Pressure
  26. Terrestrial Protected Areas (National Biome Weights)
  27. Terrestrial Protected Areas (Global Biome Weights)
  28. Marine Protected Areas
  29. Critical Habitat Protection
  30. Trend in Carbon Intensity
  31. Change of Trend in Carbon Intensity
  32. Trend in CO2 Emissions per KwH
  33. Access to Electricity
Why:
Analyze: Present the information for the consumption of the citizens. It is presumable that people will explore through countries without knowing exactly which attribute is going to be interesting for them. Through the visualization is expected that people have the ability to identify outliers, trends for a specific country and the summary for the selected country. Finally, is hoped that they find dependencies between attributes.
How:
For encoding the information it is used a 3D graph, is not ordered but it is aligned and for the mapping of the attributes they use volume,color hue and saturation. They try to summarize the data of each country making a map and representing the embed information through those 3D graphs.
Criticism:
Effectiveness: The principle say that in the visualization should encode most important attributes with highest ranked channels. In this visualization it is used height (depth), in volumes, to express the quantitative scale. Which does not represent in a clear way the scale for the human and can compare the values with each other. However in the diagram is express the values explicit with number. The highest ranked channels are not used in this visualization properly.Position is used circularly that in the context of the data does not make sense. Furthermore this distribution generates occlusion.

Expressiveness: The principle says that the codification should express all but, only the attributes from the dataset. They are using the saturation of some colors such as green and blue, so that, gives the idea that some attributes are more important than others which is not necessarily true. Nevertheless the visualization includes every indicator clearly.