Camille will look into heatmap used by Olin
Camille heard back from Joanne Leary: Yes, I was intrigued with the idea of using the heat map function of Qualtrics to record space usage in libraries (inspired by surveys we were doing at the time for Africana and Math). The basic idea is that you start with a floor plan that you upload to Qualtrics. Then, you mark out the rooms or other spaces on the floor plan that you want data for. Usage is recorded by clicks with the various areas; time is also recorded. My thought was that staff could use a tablet open to the Qualtrics survey to go around the library and click on the spaces that patrons were using, capturing both the count and time. I never completed the prototype (kept running into obstacles and I was learning as I went, which was slow going), but it would be worth looking at again, I think. If you want to view the very incomplete effort, I can give you collaboration rights to the survey. - Joanne |
Camille has the name of the guy at Georgia Tech
"The resulting Statistics Dashboard, hand-coded by Jay Forrest at Georgia Tech Library, unifies many data points reported to federal agencies as well as other institutions such as ARL. The dashboard also allows the inclusion of caveats and contextual notes to help explain discrepancies. It is important to note that the Dashboard is a work in progress, so it was not deployed as a fully-formed product but is rather in perpetual beta.”-from the Library Assessment paper Sara and I did with GA Tech |
looking at something called Tableau
we have a site license?
The enterprise data dashboard software we might be able to get licenses for is Tableau . Institutional Research & Planning uses it for their data analysis and visualization and publishing to the web as do other units on campus. We might be able to get $300 licenses for this (instead of $1500 like they’d normally be). LibAnalytics is also an upcoming possibility. |