UniDash: Interactive Dashboard for Data Driven Insights on Universities

Abstract

Universities, like other institutions or companies are under a steady quality control inpursuit of improvement. Generating pertinent insights from consistently collected data at universitiesis one of the many possibilities to integrate data science into our educational system. The proposedprototype dashboard is designed for educational institutions to visually assess their shifts in relevanttopics such as diversity, accessibility, and planning aspects. This paper shows the workflow anddashboard using the UnivIS database of Kiel University for extracting and preprocessing the data. Theproposed demo revealed interesting insights, such as in the planning, lecture halls are selected withonly 50% capacity utilization, rooms for less that 50 people are planned to use 100% capacity. Thedemonstration web application can be tested in German at unidash.tk.