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href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030/http://www.mayaman.cc/" target="_blank">Maya聽 Man</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonia-grunwald-9090a7129" target="_blank">Sonia Grunwald</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030/http://www.peterxeno.com/" target="_blank">Peter Xenopoulos</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030/https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwinvillafanehernandez/" target="_blank">Edwin Villafane</a> </p><p style="margin-top:10px;width:90%">A project analyzing the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) data using the WebGL globe</p> <div class="action-button-holder" style="margin-top:25px"> <a class="button hollow caps disabled" href="#" target="_blank" onclick="ga("send","event","Experiment Launch Button","Click","UFO Sightings Around the World")" aria-label="Launch UFO Sightings Around the World Experiment" nonce="8-78Bh-YL6Yh3na3j7b97T6F9YL795SE"> Launch experiment </a> <a class="button 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</div> <div id="featured-holder"><div class="featured-img-holder"><img class="featured-img" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030im_/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wjTp5HN-Rf0MgUJsSliz6Sia8Jk4GhFL0SV6vK509BaSup4JMxx_20iQ06JkAlpB91GWhL4BbCteSxNKDHceq2KNg91a" alt="" data-img-alt=""></div> <div class="featured-img-holder"><img class="featured-img" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030im_/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tWDl7b_YamQVm34WC8ZLAyWq1F2IdZkyke4z3omywou_EHwT4xpnCd26YLEryomoFBj1t-Cbkf2LLfkf5UHFstFWk1Z8" alt="" data-img-alt=""></div> </div><div class="content-wrap single"><div class="content-twothird"><div class="content-block displaytext"><p>This project analyzes the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) data. We built this webpage to host all of the visualizations we created so other people can access this information and gain a better understanding of the UFO sighting dataset. </p><p><br></p><p> The data set is a single, scrubbed data set that includes the geocoded and time standardized data for around 88,000 UFO sightings. Each of these reports include geographic and time data as well as a field containing the text of the report, which is anywhere from a few words to a few paragraphs. The original dataset can be found <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030/http://herehttps//github.com/planetsig/ufo-reports" target="_blank">here</a>. </p><p><br></p><p> The globe visualization on the landing page visualizes the 500 centroids generated when we ran the K-means algorithm over all of the latitude and longitude points and specified that we wanted 500 clusters. The height of each plotted centroid represents the number of sightings in that centroid's cluster. The higher number of sightings in that area, the greater the height of that point.</p><p><br></p><p> Histograms that visualize specific aspects of the data such as UFO sightings by year, frequency of UFO sighting shapes, UFO sighting density in America, and UFO sightings by specific states can be found on the More Data page.</p><p><br></p></div> </div><div class="content-onethird"><h4 class="caps small">Built with: </h4><div id="tags-holder" style="display:block"> <a class="tag" href="/web/20230921213030/https://experiments.withgoogle.com/experiments?tag=WebGL">WebGL</a>, <a class="tag" href="/web/20230921213030/https://experiments.withgoogle.com/experiments?tag=Three.js">Three.js</a> </div></div></div></div></div><footer><div class="wrapper"><div class="google-logo"></div><div id="social-holder"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030/https://www.google.com/policies/" target="_blank" class="social-icon">Privacy & Terms</a><div id="social-icons"><a class="social-icon" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030/https://www.facebook.com/ExpWithGoogle/" target="_blank" aria-label="Link to our Facebook page"><img src="/web/20230921213030im_/https://experiments.withgoogle.com/static/img/social-fb.png" alt="facebook icon"></a> <a class="social-icon" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030/https://twitter.com/ExpWithGoogle" target="_blank" aria-label="Link to our Twitter page"><img src="/web/20230921213030im_/https://experiments.withgoogle.com/static/img/social-tw.png" alt="twitter icon"></a></div></div></div></footer><div id="page-loader"><div id="txt-submitting">Submitting...</div><div id="txt-saving">Saving...</div></div><div id="sitemenu-icon"><span class="line1"></span> <span class="line2"></span> <span class="line3"></span></div><div id="overlay"><div id="overlay-closebtn"></div><div id="overlay-content-wrap"><div class="wrapper"><div id="overlay-content"></div></div></div></div><script src="//web.archive.org/web/20230921213030js_/https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js" nonce="8-78Bh-YL6Yh3na3j7b97T6F9YL795SE"></script><script src="/web/20230921213030js_/https://experiments.withgoogle.com/static/js/vendors.js" nonce="8-78Bh-YL6Yh3na3j7b97T6F9YL795SE"></script><script src="/web/20230921213030js_/https://experiments.withgoogle.com/static/js/script.min.js" nonce="8-78Bh-YL6Yh3na3j7b97T6F9YL795SE"></script><script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20230921213030js_/https://www.gstatic.com/glue/cookienotificationbar/cookienotificationbar.min.js" data-glue-cookie-notification-bar-category="2B"></script></body></html>