Wentworth University Library Case Study

The first dataset we could utilize would be unsupervised: data visualization to examine relationships between pair of variables. This dataset would represent the relationships between the DePaul students in the loop compared to Lincoln Park. This would illustrate how many students are utilizing the subscriptions being offered and the frequency that the students are using these by tracking the number of times the journals are being checked out. Not only would this give a better representation of which journals are worthy of keeping but also the format of whether it’s print or online. As a result, this dataset would showcase the amount of journals being checked out and which library location is seeing the most traffic and thus either reducing or increasing the allocation of resources to accommodate that location. As a direct result of this, it …show more content…
Hence, this dataset would track cost, inflation, budget and how the reduction of the budget has decreased over the years due to rising costs associated with inflation that has negatively affected the libraries ability to keep subscriptions. This is due to the high costs and ultimately has led to cancellation of subscriptions that are in print and newspapers that the library already has online versions of. The third dataset we could utilize would be unsupervised: data reduction this would allow us to reduce the large data into simpler data, this would allow us to focus on a set data and reduce the amount of time required to make a firm decision with the limited budget available. We would be able to focus on subscriptions that are costly, frequency of usage, location of these subscriptions, format, and