Application-Driven Design: Help Students Understand Employment and See the “Big Picture”

Few tools for career exploration utilize visualizations despite their potential to help students understand the intangible relationships between jobs and majors. Our application-driven design combines the intuitiveness of node-link diagrams and the scalability of aggregation-based techniques to combine an overview of a job database with the option for individualized exploration.

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