ANLY482 AY2017-18 T2 Group 17 Findings
Main Findings | Finals |
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Treemap
Application of Treemap
The size of the rectangle corresponds to the number of books purchased and the colour intensity corresponds to the dollar amount spend on each genre. From the treemap, it is observed that Sociology and Political Science e-books have consumed a substantial proportion of the PDA funds. A large proportion of funds are being utilized by ‘Undergraduate Students’ followed by ‘Master Students’ across all genres.
Political Science and Sociology, the treemap shows that Sociology books are generally more expensive whereby a 12% increase in book quantity results in close to 50% increase in price spent. User groups were further broken down into their respective schools. From the breakdown, Social Sciences and Law students are seen to have utilized bulk of the resources of PDA programme. In the Sociology genre, there is a small group of students from Accountancy and Economics that also resulted in purchases of these books. A comparison of ‘DocI D’ is performed for these groups against the ‘Book Utilization rate’ data, where more than half of the books purchased belongs to 1 distinct user utilization only.