ISSS608 2016-17 T1 Assign2 Nguyen Tien Duong

- WIP -

Objectives

The original project is entirely funded with 39,292.83 € (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wiki4HE) , which is not very luxurious to afford commercial statistic softwares such as SAS, JMP, Tableau… to analyze.

The aim of this project is to produce visual analytic platform cost effective using open source D3js to draw out findings that original research covered as well as findings outside of the primary research.

With limited resource of 78 man hours ( 4 weekend days and 3 nights x 2 weeks), the project has to develop with vision “less is more”, to use less charts but more interaction, responsiveness and effective making use of current chart.

Analytical goals

- Aimed to create Interactive Visualization using Parallel Sets (and maybe other charts) to discover causation relationship between factors that influence Wiki Adoption process.
- To hand-on D3.js and get hand dirty.

Application URLs

Application

 Tag (milestone):
 https://rawgit.com/Zendom88/wiki_adoption/v1.0.1/index.html

 Dev master (updating on fly):
 https://rawgit.com/Zendom88/wiki_adoption/master/index.html

Source code

 https://github.com/Zendom88/wiki_adoption

Milestone

• 22 Sep 16: Done first SIT version for Parallel Set, deploy to GitHub
• 23 Sep 16: Add Data source to enable switching between 2 types: [1,2,3,4,5] or [1,3,5] scoring.
• 25 Sep 16: Debug navigation. Deploy v1.0.1

Data analysis

Data Prep

• Translate feedback results to 3 levels: "High" "Normal" "Low"

1, 2 = Low (1)

3 = Normal (3)

4, 5 = High (5)

Analysis and Results

(outline)

Analyzing Process

- Define journey from Background to Behavior
- Approach: Start from Behavior, analyze the closest impact that is driven factor. Drill in further detail.

At a Glance: Who are "they"

From total 800+ observations, based on behavioral intention, we split wiki users into 3 groups: OUTSIDER: group of people who do have none or very low intention to promote Wiki usage in academic environment. ADOPTER: group of people who do not either strongly support or against the usage of Wiki in academic environment ADVOCATOR: group of people who strongly indicate that they are willing to promote Wiki in the future for academic usage.

Advocator insight

• Behavior: Are they currently using Wiki for teaching?

The observation has shown that Advocators are not necessarily to be current users. Almost equal contributions are from all 3 sources: Current from intensive academic users – ranking 5, medium – ranking 3 to non-using – rank 1. Flip the view from other side, it is obvious that mainly all 5-rank “used to build teaching materials” users will be strongly supportive to advocate the academic usage of wiki.

• Belief: How do advocators think about collaborative research and sharing knowledge?

This relationship is truly obvious showing that majority of advocators (BI1 = 5-4) are from faculties who believe in importance of sharing knowledge in academic environment. The 2 charts below showing the very similar pattern between sharing academic and research activity via wiki.