Business Intelligence and Data Visualization Lab

Manual
CSL 232

Project Report

Faculty name: Dr. Pankaj Agarwal Student name: Pranav

Roll No.: 19CSU400

Semester: 5th

Group: DS E2

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The NorthCap University, Gurugram- 122001, India
Session 2021-22
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S. No Page No.

1. Project Description 2

2. Problem Statement 2

3. Analysis

3.1 Hardware Requirements 2

3.2 Software Requirements

4. Design 2

4.1 Data/Input Output Description: 3

4.2 Algorithmic Approach / Algorithm / DFD / ER 3

diagram/Program Steps

5. Implementation and Testing (stage/module wise) 3-6

6. Output (Screenshots) 3-6

7. Conclusion and Future Scope 7

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Project Description
Every year thousands of people and animals suffer from the wrath of mother-nature in different
parts of the world. The project “Analysis of Natural Disasters” depicts the devastating impact of
these events, these are a major cause of unnatural deaths of humans and animals, between 2000
and 2021 alone natural disasters caused $1.7 trillion in damage and affected 2.9 billion people.
This project gives us a clear view about past present and future of these disastrous natural
phenomenon.

Problem statement
In the recent times, a new variant of the SARS virus has spread its damage in form of COVID-
19, This made us realize how much of damage we face every year due to natural disasters. Thus,
we decided to take this matter into consideration and worked on the dataset to analyze and
minimize the damages done by these disasters.

Analysis
3.1 Hardware Requirements
 8 physical cores, 16V-CPU (ex: AWS)
 32 GB system memory
 50 GB minimum free disk space

3.2 Software Requirements

 Microsoft Windows 7 or newer (32-bit and 64-bit)
 Microsoft Server 2008 R2 or newer
 Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Opteron processor or newer
 2 GB memory
 1.5 GB minimum free disk space

Design

4.1 Data/Input Output Description:

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The dataset is from 2000 to 2021 year and has about 47 column and 14000 rows. In the dataset
natural disasters are divided into different subgroups. The dataset informs us about number of
affected people, injured people, and deaths etc. in different countries with their related continent.
Also, we can acknowledge about number of disasters occurring in different years and the type of
disaster.

The dataset is taken from https://www.emdat.be/ (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of
Disasters (CRED) launched the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT). EM-DAT was created
with the initial support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Belgian Government.)

Our work
Our includes analyzing and forecasting trends from the dataset which we have presented through
4 inclusive dashboards each with a different theme, which will be explained further below

DASHBOARD 1

The first dashboard represents the situation of Countries/Continents through various parameters.
The world heatmap depicts the frequency of occurrence of natural disasters across the world and
separates it by Continent -> Country. The tree map depicts the count of total deaths which

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include during or after the crisis. The dashboard also contains charts covering parameters Total
Damages, Total number of Homeless and Disaster Category wise frequency.

From the above dashboard we can see that USA spends a lot on aftermath of the disasters even
though the amount of disasters is less, the inflation and cost of living of USA supports the
statement. We can also see that countries which are densely populated such as India, Indonesia
China etc. face a lot of deaths, even if they don’t face heavy disasters. The country with poor
health facilities such as parts of Africa, Asia, USA face a lot of injured people as they don’t have
up to standard Healthcare.

DASHBOARD 2

The second dashboard filters according to years and the graphs plot about the total deaths,
amount of damage and number of homeless people etc., and we can easily observe various things
like In 2002, there were more number of homeless and injured people in comparison to number
of deaths because in that year there were major floods in Europe and people were affected by
them and also destruction of homes across the Caribbean and life-threatening mudslides in India,
Nepal and Bangladesh, have been a key feature of 2002. Similarly, in 2005-06 there was more
homeless people around the world as Katrina hurricane struck in south-east area of USA. In
2015, there is second largest affected number of people as there was south India floods in that
year and earthquake near parts of Nepal China and India.

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 DASHBOARD 3

Third dashboard shows these criteria with relation to Disaster group, and we made this
dashboard so that we can make precaution measures according to the disaster. For example, in
floods no of people affected are more than number of injured people whereas in earthquake areas
number of affected people is less and injured people are more. So, places where it is more likely
to have floods, we should displace the people to a much safer area and for earthquake prone area
there should be a strong infrastructure and there should be teaching among people on the pre
disaster steps.

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 DASHBOARD 4

The fourth dashboard is all about forecasting. Using Tableau, we have worked on Linear
regression and date series analysis to create regression/trend line which help us with predictions
for the next 3-4 years. The forecasting is primarily based on the data from 2020-21 and Total
Deaths seems to have a small peak for the year 2020, Total number of affected people, Injured
people seems to have a slight increase and fortunately Number of homeless people will see a
drop in upcoming years. Since with the help of technological advancements the damage is being
controlled, we can support the forecast via logical arguments.

Conclusion and future Steps:

We can conclude that natural disasters are undoubtedly the most unpredictable events and can
happen anywhere anytime. We can only predict the areas where they are more likely to happen
and strengthen our resources accordingly. For these events there are specific measures that
should be taken by people and government such as preparing as flood prevention reef in the areas
locked with oceans and other water bodies, from our analysis we also want to bring out the issue
of considering natural disaster as an unstoppable massacre, by proper study and analysis we can
at least minimize the destruction.

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Publicly Available Work
Worksheets can be found at: Tableau Public Link

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