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NCSU CSC Faculty Data - Analaysis and Visualization

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    Teddy Xinyuan Chen
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Table of Contents

Data Source

https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/directories/index.php

Ethnicity Makeup

Ethnicity is inferred from names by ML models, not me.

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Research Areas

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Research Interest Network + Ethnicity

Gee, this one took me over an hour to draw!

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Note that since some faculty members do not have listed research areas, they're not included in this plot.

Number of Research Areas by Ethnicity

Total Number of Research Areas, Stacked Bars

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Average Number of Research Areas

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Chinese professors tend to list a lot research areas on their profiles. Each of the bars on the left of the Chinese bar bascially represents 1 person, so that doesn't tell us much.