Weekly Viz 2018-07-02

Rat Sightings in NYC

About Makeover Monday

MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”

Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.

The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.

Makeover Monday 0702

This week’s topic is rats sighting in NYC. Awwwww Rats! The dataset is a collection of NYC 311 request regarding rats sightings. It include time and location info. The data format is quite similar to last week’s dataset.

My Visualization

Dealing with data with time, a very typical thinking is to plot heatmap. And since the dataset has location and zip, I also plotted the zipcode level density map.

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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• Summer is the season with most rats sighting cases hapenning;
• The borough Brooklyn has seen most rats sighting cases, especially around the zipcode 11221.

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