This is a project by Dan Ran in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Data Visualization, at Parsons School of Design.

advisor - Daniel Sauter
environment consultant - The Nature Conservancy Shenzhen

calligraphy logo - Yixiao Zhang
special thanks - Aaron Hill, Vivi, Christopher Bost, Scarlett Li

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The web application was built with Nuxt.js, Mapbox GL JS & Studio, D3.js, and Baidu Map API. The vue-scrollama package was used for scroll events. The data was cleaned and managed by using Numpy and Pandas<

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