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Spike: Spike_No

Title: Data Analytics Spike

Author: Dylan Sutherland, djsutherland@deakin.edu.au

Goals / Deliverables

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  • Data Analytics backlog on Trello

Technologies, Tools, and Resources used

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  • Internet Browser; Google Chrome, FireFox, Safari

Tasks undertaken

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  • Engaged in Discussion with Andrew Cain
  • Created a Trello backlog for the continued development of Data Analytics

What we found out

The Data Analytics feature as it currently exists in OnTrack provides a limited set of visualisations given the data available. The current visualisations are: Target Grade Pie Chart, Task Status Pie Chart & Task Completion Box Plot. For the future development of Data Analytics, although integrated visualisations will continue to play a key role in providing a quick overview of the data, the ability to export the data to a third party tool such as Tableau or PowerBI will be a key feature. This will allow for more complex visualisations to be created and for the data to be analysed in more depth. The current visualisations will need to be migrated to the latest version of Angular and maintained as they provide a quick overview of the data. One particular area where the current visualisations are lacking is the ability to track interaction time such as tutor time to provide task feedback, this is a key visualisation which could be added to the existing visualisations. In parallel to extending the current visualisations, the requirements of the export feature will be investigated including a questionnaire to understand the needs of Unit chairs and tutors, before designing UML diagrams and implementing the feature.