Week 6. Introduction to term project

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Week 6. Introduction to term project
Oct. 10th, 2005
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Important dates for the term project

• Team list due Oct, 24th (in class).
• Term project proposal due Nov, 15th (500 pm).
• Term project presentation due Dec, 5th (in
  class).
• Term project report due Dec, 16th 500 pm.

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Form a team

• Each undergraduate team has 3-4 team members.
• One student will act as the team contactor. Team
  contactor can be selected by the team or we may
  assign one if no one selected.
• Normally we assume that each member will
  contribute the same efforts to the whole project.
  If not, the team contactor needs to submit a
  contribution table which describes the percentage
  each team member contributes to the project. The
  contribution table should be discussed within
  your team before turned in.
• Final grade of each team member equals
• (Team grade)(Your contribution)(Number of team
  members)
• Each graduate has 1-2 team members.

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Find an appropriate topic

• Types of topics
• Social Science
• Engineering applications
• Environmental
• Business
• More
• The topic should be of feasible size
• Make sure the topic is not too big or hard to
  finish before the presentation
• Data availability
• The topic should be a problem that you can apply
  GIS tools to solve.
• What is the problem?
• Why you can use GIS tools for this problem?
• How?

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Topics from last time 1.

• Transportation System of Tsim Sha Tsui
• Target Using GIS to resolve the traffic
  congestion problem.
• Air pollution in Pearl River Delta
• Target Air pollution assessment using GIS.
• New private school in HK island
• Target Find a appropriate location to open a new
  private school.
• Property Management
• Target Search for a new home using GIS
• Rechargeable battery collection
• Find feasible locations to setup battery
  collection points.

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Topics from last time 2.

• Competition study for the new HK Disneyland
• Target Market competition studies of HK and
  Shanghai Disneyland.
• GIS for demographics analysis
• Target Migration study using GIS.
• Superstore competition study
• Target Find a suitable location for a new PNS
  store.
• Strategic waste collection
• Target GIS analysis for setting up waste
  collection strategies.
• Public library
• Target Location for a new public library.

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Methodology

• Construct a logical spatial analysis flow chart
  that details the project steps will make the
  success of the analysis more likely.
• What types of analyses will you perform?
• Overlays?
• Buffering?
• Spatial interpolations?
• The spatial analysis flow diagram should include
• An outline of the procedures required for the
  data
• A logical sequence of procedures to be performed
• A list of all the data required for each step

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Data availability

• Hong Kongs data
• Boundary file
• Population
• You can also make the data by digitalizing
• Data on the web
• Google by keywords
• A complete set of data resource prepared by
  Stanford library
• US national data
• US by state
• International data

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Project proposal

• Before you start doing the project, you will need
  to submit a proposal. The proposal includes,
• What you want to do?
• Why GIS is useful for your project?
• How you want to do it?
• What kind of deliverables you will submit?
• The proposal does not have to be long. Three to
  five A4 double-space pages should be a reasonable
  size.
• As we receive the proposal, we will give you
  advices to see if your proposal is feasible.

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Project presentation

• 20 minutes for each team.
• Normally PowerPoint files.
• Submit your final presentation files in digital
  format together with your final report by 5 00
  pm Dec, 16th (Friday).

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Kowloon Tong
Example 1. Property Management
Ten major steps for each case Three case studies
for a family cycle
Name (Chinese) Name (English) Final marks Price per square feet Area of flat Purchase Price Floor Direction facing
??? Fu Keung Court 4.124 3,400 890 3,026,000 12 E
???? Villa Cornvwel 3.570 4,900 1,050 5,145,000 19 N
??? Sunderland Town Houses 3.454 7,800 1,070 8,346,000 36 W
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Example 2. Rechargeable Battery
Both qualitative and quantitative analysis The
idea of gap analysis
DCNO DCCA_ENG Potential DCNO DCCA_ENG Potential
3718 Heng To 10238.5 3736 Chui Tin 4870.7
3720 Sunshine City 7044.2 3704 City One 4664.6
3721 Lee On (Sha Tin) 6796.6 3702 Lek Yuen 4610.5
3708 Pok Hong 6407.1 3733 Hin Ka 4512.0
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Final report

• Final report should include all necessary
  information. Usually it should include at least,
• Data file used (usually it should be a shape
  file).
• A Doc file which describes in details of the
  project (goals, data used, models created, steps,
  results), with necessary pictures/images.
• Some maps to present your analytical results.
• Attribute table and charts.

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Evaluation

• Project proposal 10
• Presentation 40
• Final report 50