A tool designed for the policy makers of Amsterdam, commissioned by the company Ring-Ring ® in the Netherlands.
Project Information Design, a course of Information Design. It is a thema semester of the third year from the study CMD. In this course I will learn to create a concept for Ring-Ring in which data visualization is a mandatory part.
A tool designed for the policy makers of Amsterdam, commissioned by the company Ring-Ring ® in the Netherlands.
For this course I have to create an interactive data visualization for a company. Ring-Ring is the company I have chosen for, because it’s a company that strives for a better cycling environment. I like that endeavor and I agree with it! Ring-Ring has also an application where users cycle routes and the app tracks their cycled routes. Now I have been asked to make a data visualization of the data for one of the target groups (think of policy makers, insurance, stakeholders, app users).
We have created a tool for Amsterdam policymakers in which new insights will emerge. In this dashboard, the data of cycling accidents and cycling routes come together, which has never happened before. In this way, efforts to improve cycling safety may well be achieved! This is all showed in one overview, as well as the given feedback from the Ring-Ring app users.
At the begin of the application, there is a short video (7.0s) (see below) that shows a traffic accident (the topic at stake).
When the video is over, an overlay with an introduction text appears (see below). It explains the entire tool in a nutshell.
There are 2 pages in the tool; the dashboard and the feedback-page. Each page has their own features.
I used two libraries that helped me a lot to make a nice dashboard;
Mapbox GL JS
Mapbox is a JS library that delivers interactive OpenStreetMaps and online Mapbox styles (Studio Mapbox). In the editor of the Studio you can style your own map, so that it fits completely into your design. The way how to implement the Mapbox code and style is very user friendly.
Chart.js
Chart.js is a JS library that delivers a lot of data visualizations. I chose to make the bar chart with Chart.js and it helped me a lot. You can configure it to the end to how you want it and it also works fine with plugins like chartjs-plugin-datalabels.
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"type": "LineString"
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"properties": {
"start": "2020-01-31T22:57:40Z",
"end": "2020-01-31T22:59:51Z",
"duration": 2,
"modality": 2,
"distance": 0.16,
"feedback score": null,
"feedback": null,
"weather": "zwaar bewolkt"
}
}
]
}
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"features": [
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"geometry": {
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"properties": {
"id": 2,
"street": "Marnixstraat/Rozengracht",
"outcome": "dodelijk",
"gender": "v",
"age": 32,
"weather": "droog",
"year": 2019,
"url_site": "https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/205165/het-leven-van-zahra-32-eindigde-op-een-amsterdams-kruispunt",
"image_article_site": "https://media.at5.nl/images/464337.f75ed47.webp?width=3200&ratio=3:1&quality=80",
"source": "AT5.nl",
"date_publicated": "25-10-2020"
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Link to live version, click here!
git clone https://github.com/ralfz123/ring-ring.git
npm i
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
localhost:8000
Credits to Janine Hogendoorn from Ring-Ring for giving feedback and thinking along in the process and Credits to Suze for thinking along and motivating the process. Also credits to my teammates Nassèra Grampon and Lawrence Prins (for the design).
This project from Ralf has a MIT © License