Uma estratégia de visualização da informação relativa a indicadores de instituições de ensino

Abstract

Education institutions seeking to support their expansion strategies and decision making. For this they need tools that provide them with relevant information from data previously stored, these data should be explored in all its granularity in order to find patterns and trends that manages knowledge, especially when a particular point of interest is necessary. However, with the increasing use of computing resources to store complex transactions from simple logs of users, the number of connections between the data and the amount increases considerably, this makes it necessary to find new ways and methods of information visualization that allow navigating through this data and present them to the user. Thus, this study aims to investigate ways and methods of representation and interaction, enabling create a System Information Retrieval able to extract relevant information from these data volumes. Thus, with the literature review and analysis of the state of the art tools that explore the interconnectivity of data through a technique called Data Network, is proposed the architecture of a system using information visualization techniques associated with data an educational institution, presents through visual artifacts, academic indicators. Finally, we present and discuss the results obtained by means of a case study in an educational institution.