International Journal of Advances in Applied Sciences (IJAAS)
Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2018, pp. 309~316
ISSN: 2252-8814, DOI: 10.11591/ijaas.v7.i4.pp309-316 309
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Data Visualization and Analysis of Engineering Educational
Statistics
Siddhaling Urolagin, Ishita Upadhyaya, Afrah Abbas Thakur
Department of Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Dubai International Academic City,
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Mei 12, 2018
Revised Jul 2, 2018
Accepted Aug 12, 2018
Engineering, is one of the most popular fields of higher education in the
modern day world. Majority of the students these days opt for engineering as
a career, due to the vastness of choices provided by engineering. Mechanical,
Electrical, Computer Science, Civil and Biotechnology are the various
disciplines and have varying strength in terms of number of students who join
a particular discipline. In this research, we have gather data from various
published articles about engineering education and carried out the data
visualization and analysis using Tableau 9.2. The objective of the analysis is
to help the students to make the decision and the choice about discipline of
engineering from which particular university would be the most suitable based
on the data collected and represented. Various categories of statistics such as
number of graduates from a particular university in a particular discipline, and
which university had the maximum number of graduates in a certain year will
help the students make their decisions about their future in a more easy and a
sorted manner.
Keyword:
Data Visualization
Engineering Education
Statistical Analysis
Copyright © 2018 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
Siddhaling Urolagin,
Department of Computer Science,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Dubai International Academic City
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Email: siddhaling@dubai.bits-pilani.ac.in
1. INTRODUCTION
A term which covers several industries and applications broadly is known as “Engineering”. The three
fields namely Science, Mathematics and Technology merge together to provide solutions to real-world issues
in the form of “Engineering”. Engineering educates students and helps them to develop and making those
successful engineers through technical expertise, social awareness and innovation [1]. Among all the
professions in the world, Engineering is one of the preferred higher education choice by many students [2].
Due to the increase in number of engineering students, the number of graduates from those universities has
been rising annually since 2007. According to a research, a large percentage increase in the enrollment of
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering [3] has been seen in the universities all-round the globe [4]. The
higher education helps students to have a variety of career options to select and be successful engineers [5].
The Universities are considered to be good on the basis of their quality of education, quality of faculty, research
output and per capita performance. In this paper, an effort has been made to analyze the data corresponding to
engineering universities such number of candidates taking admission, prospective employments by graduates,
number of candidates successfully completing graduation etc. A comparison between different branches of
engineering disciple is carried out. Such an analysis is not only useful for students looking to join engineering
universities but to the universities also. Students seeking new admission can come to know current trends and
opportunities in various engineering discipline. With the help of data analysis universities can define new
branches based on trends and improve various aspects of existing branches. The research work is organized as