Visualizing Educational Datamining Patterns

Providing the educational community with the means to analyze the results of educational processes may help pcorrect problematic situations, leading to a more successful education. Applying Data Mining to educational information provides the tools to analyze such data. However, results comprehend an extensive set of behaviors that consist of complex symbolic patterns. Visualization, due to its potential to display large quantities of data, may overcome this limitation. Hence, using the results of educational data mining that had been applied to information on courses in a university program, we developed a visualization that allows the analysis of such patterns. User tests have shown that our visualization makes important patterns immediately perceivable and displays the most relevant patterns, proving its potential for visualizing educational patterns.