Title
An Architecture for Mining and Visualization of U.S. Higher Educational Data
Abstract
Higher education has undergone considerable change in the past decades. As a result, the higher education community is collecting and disseminating a great deal of data that is typically used to benchmark performance or satisfy reporting requirements. This data is a rich source for scholarly inquiry, and particularly interesting for questions related to investment strategies within the academy. However, the real value of these data sets can often only realized when the data is viewed and studied across the aggregate collection of data sources. This is a complex task that requires gathering, cleaning, and applying consistent metadata standards to data sets. This paper presents a Unified Data Framework that allows the aggregation of high demand data sources into a single useful research resource that is relevant to research in higher education. The Unified Data Framework guides the aggregation of existing and new data sets, and provides the option of connecting and automatically, or semi-automatically, updating data from the original sources. The Unified Data Framework presents to researchers of higher education a robust suite of analytic tools for data mining and visualization of combined and complex data sources.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ITNG.2012.151
ITNG
Keywords
Field
DocType
data visualisation,investment strategy,data collection,further education,data mining,data visualization,data sets,data acquisition,meta data,databases,data dissemination,investment
Data warehouse,Data science,Data architecture,Metadata,Data visualization,Data quality,Data mapping,Computer science,Data element,Further education
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.56
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Linh Ngo161.75
Vijay Dantuluri230.56
Michael J. Stealey331.23
Stanley C. Ahalt471.30
Amy Apon58110.88