Hannah Friedrich, Giovanni Svevo, Alex Walters
Create a cleaner, more accessible coordinated, multiple view geovisualization of the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database for others to learn about transboundary freshwater characteristics, conflicts, treaties, dams and physical variables like land cover and irrigated areas associated within a basin, basic country unit (BCUs), or country.
Utilizing Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database data, create a geovisualization that is a dynamic, interactive webmap which shows basins, BCUs, and countries and a breakdown associated variables with that particular basin, BCU, or country. Primary goal is to express the variables using D3.js on a side panel, which may be expanded to show a comparison of variables between two basins, BCUs, or countries. For the tabluar data (events, RBOs, and treaties), we would like to have a bar beneath the web map that contains rows of the associated event, RBO, or treaties which the user can scroll through. From this table, one can link to PDFs of the treaties which is hosted by the TFDD group. It is also planned to create a network visualization of the events, RBOs, and treaties to show which countries have treaties with other countries. From the main landing page, one will be able to share, view on Github, and have a link to an "About" page which contains background information on the database, a bibliography, and credits.
The TFDD database has both spatial and tabular data. Spatial data consist in a series of shapefiles (which will be transformed in topojson files for this project) delineating the boundaries of International River Basins and of Basin Country Units. The attribute table of those shapefiles contains information about population, population density and land area in each unit.
Tabular data consist of three excel spreadsheet containing information about:
- International water treaties
- International events (both conflictual and friendly) related to water
- River Basin Organizations within each basin.
Link to data.
Coordinated (Multiple) View Geoviz similar to the Climate Proxies Finder
World Cloud for visualizing a world cloud of words from treaties to demonstrate the verbage which may express positive or negative connotations regarding various treaties.
Poulation
Landcover
Dams
Treaty
Events
RBO
Countries
Land area
Population
Dams (existing and planned)
Treaties
Events
The website will be accessed from a landing/welcome page with a brief introduction containing basic information about the database and links to social media and other resources. The main interface of the website will have as a central element a world map with the international water basins and basin country units (BCU, subdivision of each basin among countries) boundaries. Clicking on each basin/BCU a side panel will appear with statistics about that particular unit: population, land area, water, land cover distribution, number of dams etc. The visualization will be in the form of coordinate pie and bar charts. A navbar on the top of the page will allow to change thematic maps as background: climate world map, land use etc. From the top navbar you will also be able to switch to the other sections of the website, which take in account international treaties, events and river basin organizations. On these pages the visualization will be in the form of Force Atlas and Sankey diagrams to show the type and number of relationships for each basin/country.
Color Scheme URL: https://coolors.co/afb6bc-919ba3-53626f-374e60-2f3942
All fonts will come from Google Fonts:
Titles: 'Cinzel Decorative'
Body: 'Artifika'
CDN:
local: assets/fonts
TFDD icon for logo and table icon
Events:
Dams:
Land Cover:
Population:
Organizations:
Treaty:
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