Inspiration
October was the International Campus Sustainability Month. As I attended the workshop provided from school, I got to learn about the importance of sustainability, whether I was being a good livingthing to Earth, how to save energy for the next generation, and what I should do to save the Earth and its environment. Therefore, I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to test what I learned for code and share my helpful information about our environmental problems and sustainability issues.
What it does
It shows the pie chart with percentages on my questionnaires from Google Form sustainability survey. We can see how our participants are doing on sustainability life that saves the Earth and the energy. Also, it shows the bar graph about how they changed their behavior as time went by. For the last, it shows the word cloud on what affected and influenced people to be more sustainable and be aware of this problems. By looking at the analyzed and visualized data, we can figure out what part we need to work on to save the energy and what method we should use to increase the awareness of sustainability.
How we built it
First, I made a Google Form to survey people on their sustainability life and downloaded the responses as a csv file. I used Python Pandas library to do visualization of the pie chart and bar graphs. I used pie charts for specific time period behavior, and bar graphs for the change of hebavior on different time period. Second, I used mathlab to draw a word cloud on their free responses on how they got to know about this problems, what influenced them, and how they changed.
Challenges we ran into
I didn't expect people to write a random thing for free response question. It took awhile to clean the column data. Also, I wanted some numerical values to analyze in detail, but couldn't get one.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I'm so proud of the fact that I'm contributing for a step to protect our environment by saving energy and awaring people. More that that, my project might be helpful to save more resources for our next generation. On technical side, it was my first time doing a project alone. I'm glad I got it done on time and tried something new without hesitation. I learned how to use mathlab for word cloud which is interesting.
What we learned
I learned that mathlab is way more useful than I thought before, and the fact that there are so many thing I can do with code for one dataset. It is very interesting and quiet scary as it does what I can't do this fast as a human. But, the lesson I got from this project is that using resources and taking advantage of data will be really useful for us to solve our problem in a short period of time.
What's next for Increasing Our Sustainability Awareness
I would generate a machine learning model that predicts the pathway of the graphs to see how those people who participated in the survey will change again. Also, it would be nice if I make it work real time survey responses instead of downloading them and using it as a csv file. Furthermore, I want to work on something from my output as word cloud to make a effective attraction and useful information for those people who are not aware of our environmental and energy problem.
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