Visualizing the Top 400 Universities

摘要

Visualization is a powerful tool to represent and analyze the data. Meanwhile, visualization became essential for decision making. In this paper, we provide a visualization of the top 400 universities based on the Time Higher Education Universities Rankings [1]. The ranking is based on five different criteria: teaching, research, international outlook, industry income and citation. The visualization system is hosted on a Web-based platform. It visualizes the geographical distribution of the top universities, the score distribution in all ranking criteria and a classification of all universities by area of study in each country. The main goal is to present data in a friendly way that helps to promote people's understanding and help them gain insight and make decisions. We also utilized different visualization tools to show how it could be used for educational purposes.