[CSCI 3665] Interactive Data Visualization

Instructor: Clare Bates Congdon

Measuring the Relative Importance of Different Agricultural Inputs to Global and Regional Crop Yield Growth since 1975

Name: Son D. Ngo, James Boyle and Do Yeun Kim
Date: November, 17th 2016
Assignment: FP5 - Project Weekly Report

Project Portfolio

Weekly Accounting of Contribution

  1. General Information

    In this report, we will provide a weekly description of what we have accomplished in order to achieve our goals. Along the way, there will be new subgoals/goals that emerge in response to our implementation. With that being said, this report will help prospective users and collaborators keep track of where we are. Should there be any discrepancies between versions, this report will be very helpful in solving these conflicts. The outline of this project will be in goal-progress format. This means that all the goals will be listed, and specific progress will be added below, with the date of completion. Expected immediate goals for the following weeks will be in teal colors.

  2. Weekly Report

    1. Week 12: Nov 15 - Nov 17

      • 11/14: Meet with our collaborator to discuss his goals and questions.
      • 11/16: Finalize questions we would like to tackle, and sketch out potential visualization and interactions.
      • 11/16: Write up necessary documents, organize project folders and setting up html files.
      • 11/16: Think about goals to complete next week:
      • 11/17: Consolidating questions after consulting with Clare
        • We decided to put aside the line graph for the time being, and focus on the other two.
        • No particular modification needed for the scatter plot.
        • We decided that we would use crop yield (million Kcal/ha) instead of crop type for the geomap visualization.
          • We would use a linear gradation of colors to show the "capacity of the land" denoted by the crop yield.

    2. Week 13: Nov 22 - Nov 24

      • 11/19: Data reformated to fit scatter plot format
        • Json format.
        • Obtain mins and maxes of the x,y-variables and plot radius.
      • 11/19: Geomap data obtained
        • The first copy discarded as the format was extremely unfit, resulting in 4 days of aimless coding.
        • Obtained a new one, applied Eckel4 projection for the sake of accurate representation of landmasses and aesthetics.
      • 11/21: Rough draft of the scatter plot finished.
        • Year title on top changes according to the current year.
        • Tropical versus Temperate region color-coded.
        • Animated overtime.
        • Issue: Data referencing is not correct, so transition is not applied. Took forever to figure out!
      • 11/21: Static global map layout finished.
      • Work on adding the play/pause/reset functions for scatter plot.
      • Work on making a static full map, with colors and tool tips for geomap.

    3. Week 14: Nov 29 - Dec 1

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    4. Week 15: Dec 6 - Dec 8

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References
  1. Nelson, Erik and Bates Congdon, Clare, "Measuring the Relative Importance of DIfferent Agricultural Inputs to Global and Regional Crop Yield Growth Since 1975" (2016). Economics Department Working Paper Series. Paper 12.
    http://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/econpapers/12

External Links
To Son's homepage
To James' homepage
To Do's homepage