Ticket balance inquiry system

Group 1

Zuchao Wang, Yixiangzi Sheng,Lihong Zhou, Zhu Zhu

Background (contd.)

• Sometimes, it’s very hard to get a ticket in China

Background (contd.)

• It would help if we can inquire the number of tickets remained

http://www.12306.cn/mormhweb/kyfw

Here we can!

Background

• Some problems– No overview– No information for the selling history

Visualization can help!

Dataset (contd.)

• 1. Train Number: D29

• 2. Departure Date: Aug. 25th

• 3. Inquire Time: Aug. 18th

• 4. Seat Type: First-class seat

• 5. Number of ticket remained: 4

• 6. Number of ticket in total: 280

Dataset

• 7. Other Information– Price: 540RMB

– Departure Time: 7:47

– Arrival Time 18:52

– Duration 10:36

– Start City Beijing

– End City Shanghai

– Stations On The Way: Yangliuqing, Cangzhou…

User Demand

• I would often send this type of query:– Train Number:• D29 | D233 | D31 | D321 | D313 | D307

– Departure Date:• Aug. 24th ~ Aug. 27th

– Seat Type:• First Class Seat

Design (contd.)

• Dimension stacking

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• Dimension stacking

Design (contd.)

• Dimension stacking

Design

• Detail information window

Conclusion

• A simple visualization of the number of remained train ticket

• One important function to be added:– Predict future change of the ticket number by

history

Thank you