The scenario and assignment task
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The organization wants to develop a series of
stories related to different indigenous issues which require to source and
analyze indigenous related data. A
variety of solutions have been designed to help users visually explore data
sets and present findings.
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The task in this assignment is to use an
existing visualization tool (SAP Lumira) to and create a series of
visualizations which tell a story about a particular aspect of the differences
between indigenous Australians and other Australians.
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The visualization report is estimated to present
in six minutes.
18 Sep 2015
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Understanding that the creating the six-minute
video of visualization report on Lumira is the most challenge assignment
because it requires not only the analytic skills but also the visualization abilities.
Therefore, the group members decide to start looking for the data relating to
the Indigenous from 18th Sep 2015.
24 Sep 2015
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With the helpful information and guidance from
lectures and tutorials, all group members attempt to access information and collect
data from the government websites: www.abs.gov.au;
www.pc.gov.au/gsp and www.humanrights.gov.au
28 Sep 2015
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The semester break is always the best time for
self-refreshing and searching more information for the six-minute video
assignment as well.
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Most of the essential activities are accomplished
during the semester break time, such as building up a structure for the
six-minute video (as illustrated in the Table 1 below), collecting data and
information relating to the topic, cleansing data, using Lumira to make some
visual reports, recording the screen contains and voice explanations.
Table 1 The
six-minute video structure
1 History
of Indigenous people in brief
2 Present
the 1st graphic on population & explanation
3 Present
the 2nd graphic on education & explanation
4 Present
the 3rd graphic on labour force & explanation
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Challenges
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The longitudinal data is the most difficult
things to find because sometimes the data is not available for public access
due to its sensitive contents and information.
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In cleansing phase, it is also found that, in some
states, the government did not publish their data or information at all.
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Comprehensively understanding the MEASURES and
DIMENSIONS concepts of Lumira is an essential factor to have the proper charts.
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Choosing and testing the screen capture tools is
also an important phase in order to produce a clear and sound video clip.
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Using laptop for recording the video clips is
another interesting challenge because most of the normal laptops are not
designed for rending video which requires a very high performance from CPU, RAM
and graphic card.
05 Oct 2015
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Reviewing the short video clip and discussing on
some findings for the six-minute video.
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Modifying the six-minute video structure based
on the findings as details as followings:
Table 2 The six-minute video modified-structure
Part 1 History
Part 2 Population
Part 3 Unemployment rate
Part 4 Labour force participation
Part 5 Self-accessed health rate
Part 6 Highest education attainment
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The interesting
findings:
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History –
the Indigenous ancestors of Australia had been migrating and living in their
home land for over 30,000 years ago with the very unique art and culture heritages (Vuthy 2009).
Figure 1 - The Indigenous unique art and
culture
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Population –
the Indigenous are mostly living in the New South Wales and Queensland states
which takes a proportion of 60% of overall population of the Indigenous in
Australia (ABS 2012a).
Figure 2 - The Indigenous population in 2011 by
state
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Unemployment rate – With the interesting in unemployment rate, in
2011, the finding shows that the unemployment
rate of Indigenous was much higher than Non-indigenous in all states. Focusing
on Queensland, the unemployment rate of Indigenous was 19.60% which accounts
for nearly 4 times higher than the unemployment rate of Non-Indigenous (ABS 2012b).
Figure 3 - The unemployment rate (%) in 2011
by state
§ Labour force participation – includes people who are either currently working or looking
for work. In 2011, although there were only small differences in terms of the
labour participation rate in many states, Indigenous still had the labour force
participation rate slightly lower than Non-Indigenous in many states. The
biggest difference was in Northern Territory state; the Non-Indigenous had
nearly double labour force participation rate in comparison with the Indigenous (ABS 2012b).
Figure 4 - The labour force participation rate in 2011 by state
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Self-assessed
health status – Basing on the data from the years 2001, 2005, 2008 and
2012, then focusing on the Poor health status, it can be seen that the
percentage of Indigenous were living under the poor health conditions nearly
triple in comparison with Non-Indigenous. Unfortunately, such poor situation seemed
to be nothing change much during a decade and just was slightly decline of 0.8%
(ABS 2014a).
Figure 5 - The self-assessed health status
rate from 2001~2012
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Highest
level of education – Recently, in 2013, almost Indigenous were completed
their Year 12 education, and some finished the Advanced Diploma / Diploma or Bachelor degree. However,
it can be surprisingly that the youngest Indigenous ages of 20-24 had the
lowest number of completed the Bachelor degree or above when compared to other
groups. Besides, Indigenous aged between
35 to 44 is the highest group of accomplished their Bachelor or higher degrees (ABS 2014b).
Figure 6 - The highest level of educational
attainment in 2013
11 Oct 2015
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Reviewing findings, rechecking data and redoing visualization on Lumira.
o Recording again the video clips with updated
data and information.
o Discussing on the blog's contents.
15 Oct 2015
o Adding the introduction and reference parts
o Finally revising the video before officially submitting to Dropbox
on the VU Collaborate.
o Writing a blog entry about the making of
visualization report.
The SAP Lumira – Visualization report on
Indigenous issues
A final version of the six-minute visualization
report can be accessed at the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FdqDZkynxY
REFERENCES
ABS 2012a, Census of Population and Housing - Counts of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Australians - 2011, Australian Bureau of Statistics, viewed
05 October 2015, <http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/2075.02011?OpenDocument>.
ABS 2012b, Labour Force Characteristics of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, Estimates from the Labour
Force Survey - 2011, viewed 05 October 2015, <http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/6287.02011?OpenDocument>.
ABS 2014a, Australian Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health Survey: First Results, Australia, 2012-13, viewed 05
October 2015, <http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/4727.0.55.0012012-13?OpenDocument>.
ABS 2014b, Australian Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health Survey: Updated Results, 2012–13 viewed 05 October 2015, <http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/4727.0.55.0062012%E2%80%9313?OpenDocument>.
Vuthy,
MV 2009, Stolen Generations / Australian
Aboriginal Brief History, YouTube, 04 October 2015, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNvEm8wlPw>.
