We present CoursePathVis, a visual analytics tool for exploring and analyzing students’ progress through a college curriculum using a Sankey diagram. Focusing on four student cohorts in a department, we group students in multiple ways (by their AP courses, term courses, and a user-specified funnel course) to comprehensively understand the data. CoursePathVis helps us identify patterns or outliers that affect student success with these flexible grouping techniques and the funnel-augmented Sankey diagram. Three stakeholders from the same department formulate design requirements and provide an ad-hoc evaluation.
Brendan J. O'Handley, Morgan K. Ludwig, Samantha R. Allison, Michael T. Niemier, Shreya Kumar, Ramzi Bualuan, Chaoli Wang, "CoursePathVis: Course path visualization using flexible grouping and funnel-augmented Sankey diagram" in Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Visualization and Data Analysis, 2022, pp 413-1 - 413-9, https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2022.34.1.VDA-413