my utopian home by: lynray barends, zola mahlaza & grace jegede
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Visualisation Motivation
People move to highly urbanized areas for employment/studies/relaxation
But struggle to find good accommodation
We are proposing a visualized way of finding accommodation
Related Works
1. Property24
List formatted data
Not relative to a workplace
2. Gumtree
List formatted
Site has many other features
No map provided
Related Works
3. www.spaceage.co.za: Data analysis - South African crime stats by Vusi Nkomo
http://goo.gl/MY3bxX
Crime statistics on a provincial level
Not linked to finding accommodation
Important factors:
Affordability - Price Safety - crime rate Distance to work place/school - Proximity to
X
Prototype 1
1.1 Price and Distance Visual Queries1. Which apartments are within a
2km radius from place x?
2. Which of the apartments is the cheapest?
3. Where is place x on the map?
Prototype 1
1.2 Bar graph Visual Queries1. Which apartments are within a
2km radius from place x?
2. Which of the apartments is the cheapest?
3. Where is place x on the map?
Prototype 1
1.3 Safety Visual Queries Which apartments are within a
2km radius from place x?
How safe is the area where I will be living?
Where is place x on the map?
Prototype 2
1.1 Dart Board Visual Queries1. Which apartments are within a
2km radius from place x?
2. Which of the apartments is the cheapest?
3. How safe is the area where I will be living?
Prototype 2
1.2 Colour Visual Queries1. Which apartments are within a
2km radius from place x?
2. Which of the apartments is the cheapest?
3. How safe is the area where I will be living?
Prototype 1 Analysis• Map to show relative
positions• Bar graph to easily
compare price ‘heights’• Colour over textures for
crime rate of whole areas(avoid clash with map ‘texture’)
Prototype 2 Analysis
• Using colours green, yellow, red for increasing crime rates
• Distance represented by radius x km
• Occlusion, 2.d, colour intensities for ‘closeness’
Data Sources
Map :Google Maps
Prices: Property24
Distance: user input
Crime: www.crimestats.com
Crime: Western cape government site
find more on: www.inavigate.com