Visualising University Rankings
What started out as a small project for a professor turned into a full fledged project to develop visualisation tools.
First a bit of background. U-Multirank is an organisation that provides scores to universities in different fields. This allows students, faculty and others to evaluate the best universities for them. Being a government funded project, the idea is that this would provide unbiased ratings of universities, unlike private organisations in this business (like the famous QS rankings). However, we found that the visualisations used by U-Multirank weren't able to depict the situation as clearly as the data would actually allow. So we did what any sensible person would do - we built our own visualisations!
After about 4 months of development and testing, we ended up with two visualisations (shown above). These were put together along with a main-menu GUI and presented at the European Conference on Education at Brighton, England.
The application was created using Python and Pygame graphics library on Linux. So as of now, it only runs on Linux and can be used only with python. However, we are working on extending it to other platforms and releasing the code too!
Here's the presentation we used at the conference
First a bit of background. U-Multirank is an organisation that provides scores to universities in different fields. This allows students, faculty and others to evaluate the best universities for them. Being a government funded project, the idea is that this would provide unbiased ratings of universities, unlike private organisations in this business (like the famous QS rankings). However, we found that the visualisations used by U-Multirank weren't able to depict the situation as clearly as the data would actually allow. So we did what any sensible person would do - we built our own visualisations!
After about 4 months of development and testing, we ended up with two visualisations (shown above). These were put together along with a main-menu GUI and presented at the European Conference on Education at Brighton, England.
The application was created using Python and Pygame graphics library on Linux. So as of now, it only runs on Linux and can be used only with python. However, we are working on extending it to other platforms and releasing the code too!
Here's the presentation we used at the conference
This project was done by three of us - Sandeep, Kannabiran and myself. Check out Sandeep's profile below!