Visualising daily traffic data in Melbourne, Victoria

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Data sources I used:

Traffic Volume Data: https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/typical-hourly-traffic-volume 

Road Network Data: https://vicroadsopendata-vicroadsmaps.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/5512df2ff41e4941bacf868053dbfba9_0

This project was created using Python.

First, I did some data manipulation in QGIS to acquire the street grid of a selected area in Melbourne. Then the data had to be cleaned to be suitable for plotting. The values of traffic volume also needed to be standardised, in order to plot them as the width of streets. With the help of the online community, I looped for each hour of each day of week, plotting the street grid by traffic volume. Final frames generated by the script were collated into an animation using Adobe After Effects.