TIFFANY HUANG

Description: As a final project for INFO419, a course at UBC on Data Visualization, two other teammates and I created a website to inform Canadians who are unaware of the drinking water advisory crisis in First Nations communities. My particular role was to use Tableau to produce all data visualizations that would appear on our site. To access our full visualization, click here.

 

Ultimately, the goal of our interactive maps was to unify the disparate datasets that the Canadian government currently provides on drinking water advisories in Indigenous communities; at present, the data on short and long term drinking water advisories are located on two different websites of the Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), so we compiled the data. To correctly map the locations of First Nations communities, all three of us worked to retrieve the coordinate data from the Government of Canada's “First Nations Profile Interactive Map." When coordinate data was missing from the interactive map, we took data from the “Connectivity for Aboriginal and Northern Communities in Canada” site provided by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.

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It is significant to note that  the data we collected is only representative of drinking water advisories in First Nations communities south of the 60th parallel north. There remains online a lack of publicly accesible data about Indigenous communities north of 60.