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Data Stories Created by Students
In Spring 2023, Professor Dana Willner's students used their data science skills to illustrate data shared on the Student Enrollment Trends page.
The dashboards below were created for Interacting with Data 2, the fourth in a series of skill-building assignments. The first major class project involved a hand-drawn sketch of self-collected data, and the second asked students to use Python programming to make static, non-interactive visualizations. In the third assignment, Interacting with Data 1, students used Plotly in Python to make interactive visualizations.
Professor Willner created Interacting with Data 2 to contrast the visualization processes the class had already engaged in using a graphical user interface called Tableau. With Tableau, it's straightforward to create professional quality visualizations and combine, interweave, and juxtapose them with other elements in dashboards. These create an interactive, exploratory, and informative experience for the viewer, elucidating known trends and patterns in the data and facilitating novel discoveries.
The primary goal of the Interacting with Data 2 assignment was to create an interactive dashboard visualizing trends in undergraduate enrollment, including total enrollment over time and at least one of the degrees granted by academic areas and/or majors and minors.
Beyond the baseline assignment, some students created dashboards that include information on graduate enrollment, degrees and areas of study. Others created Tableau Stories, which combine dashboards and visualizations over multiple pages to construct a narrative.
Baseline Assignment: Undergrad Trends, Limited Plot Types
Select a student's name to view their project:
Variations (Graduate Data, Unique Chart Types or Stories)
Select a project name to explore the data stories:
by Harry Choi
by Olivia Wachob
by Ella Kuhnhenn
by Tiffany Nguyen and Lila Yimtatu
by Colin Purtell