Group Data

Visualization

Joe Mioduszewski, Skyler Sanchez,

Ruben Gonzales, Abigail Bromley
Summary

● UNM’s Spring 2018 Enrollment report has many pages of useful enrollment
demographic information
● It is our job as technical communicators to communicate this data
effectively
● Through the use of graphic data visualization, we can communicate the
most relevant and important information from a large dataset
● We chose to illustrate the enrollment trends for new freshmen and returning
students for different UNM branches in Spring semesters from 2014-2018
● We used a line graph, a bar graph, a table chart, and a scatter plot
Audience

● The raw dataset (page 21) was originally made for the enrollment and
admissions offices at UNM for use in recruiting.
● We narrowed the focus of the raw dataset to present data specifically for the
Division of Student Affairs.
● Our selected data represents the number of students attending and
returning to the different branches
● This helps the Division of Academic Affairs in terms of decision-making and
providing effective services and funding for its branches.
Line Graph
● New Freshman
● Returning Students
● 2014-18
● Future Outcomes
Bar Graph (Stacked)

● Present data from categories with heights or lengths proportional to the

values they represent
● Effective for showing numbers independent of each other
● Makes it easier to visualize trends over a period of time for the same group
or multiple groups
● Makes comparisons between categories more apparent
Bar Graph (Stacked)

● Graph shows increase over a 5

year period for both New
Freshmen and Returning
● The slight decrease in 2018 was
the only misnomer so it won’t
make a huge impact on
enrollment overall
● We can predict that this trend
will continue into the year 2019
Table Chart

● Arranged in basic row-and-column form

● Most effective when datasets have few numbers/when trying to
communicate differences between categories of information
● Also useful in communicating exact precision with very specific data points
● Allows for datasets with wide ranges of values to be communicated
precisely
● Many sets of data are initially organized in tables before being visualized
with different graphics
Table Chart

● Shows the numbers of new

freshmen and returning students
for UNM’s Gallup Branch in Spring
semesters, 2014-2018
● Table represents precise figures
despite wide range of data values 1-year change:
New Freshman: -9.98% Returning: -19.46%
● Some year-to-year changes
represent hundreds of students 5-year change:
New Freshman: -13.43% Returning: -23.93%
while others represent much
smaller changes
Scatter Plot

● Shares a resemblance to the line graph.

● Created in a simple dot graph measuring system, and measures the decay
or increase of the graphs data over an (xy) axes chart.
● Purpose - Scatter plots show how much one variable, or one adjustment,
affects the other variable. (relationship between two variables =
correlation).
● One instance of a scatter plot being implemented can be seen with trying to
find the source of possible problems.
Scatter Plot

● The trend at which the students

in the spring semester of a five
year time span
○ Freshman and Returning
students
○ 2014-2018
● Graph shows the steady decline,
and incline, of UNM’s student
body of the Taos Branch.
Conclusion

● With the Enrollment and Admissions staff, as our new audience we

considered that this data was targeted more towards the UNM Division of
Student Affairs (DSA)..
○ Overseers of all activities regarding, or incorporating, students
● The data can monitor the influx of new and returning students.
○ Comparing new years in order to give proper funding to each program and branches
● Ultimately, this is better not just for the DSA, but for the students as well.
● Delegating the proper funding within reasonable amounts per the student
populace. As a way to limit the overspending or tight budgets.