“Top 50 Institutions Where Carleton Graduates Have Enrolled for Graduate Study (by Degree Type): Graduates of Classes 1990 to Present.” Institutional Research and Assessment: Post-Carleton Graduate and Professional Study, Carleton College, https://www.carleton.edu/ira/outcomes/graduate/.
Format: This source is a table showing the names of the 50 graduate schools that Carleton alumni have gone to the most, and the type of degree they went on to receive from those institutions (Masters, Doctoral, Law, Medicine, Theology, and Other). Since we will be mapping our data across various maps using ArcGIS, we need to get it into csv format for it’s own visualization, and with column headers that can be read between our different csv files.
Rights: The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment’s website where we located this material, in the Post-Carleton Graduate and Professional Study page under “Outcomes,” and of course, Carleton College is the owner. Since you don’t need to be signed in with Carleton credentials to access and even download this resource among others, we are allowed to use any of the data we deem applicable to our project. We know this because it was stated in class, but also because there is no sensitive or private information included in the source, and Carleton has published the data as part of its own research, so we are allowed to do the same.
Privacy/Ethics: Carleton alumni are depicted in this data, but as nameless, faceless data points that exist at locations across the country. None of the information is sensitive so we don’t have to remove any for our own data, and we would be very careful to make sure we weren’t being unethical by choosing to display potentially private information, so we trust this source and know we aren’t crossing any lines.
“Academic Doctorates Earned by Carleton Graduates, 1966-2016 (Detailed Disciplines).” Institutional Research and Assessment: Outcomes, Carleton College, https://www.carleton.edu/ira/outcomes/.
Format: This source (and the one that follows) is presented as a data table categorized by a detailed list of Academic Disciplines, # of Carleton degrees by discipline, % of Carleton degrees by discipline, Carleton’s rank amongst 556 Baccalaureate Colleges, and Carleton’s rank amongst 2,714 US Colleges/Universities. Each source also visualizes these data tables with two bar charts, visualizing the breakdown of how many degrees have been earned in each field. We also need to convert this data to a csv file mappable in ArcGIS, and we would make sure to maintain consistency with our column headings.
Rights: This source (and the following) is publicly accessible on the “Outcomes” page within the Institutional Research and Assessment website, and also officially owned by Carleton College. Like the “Top 50” data set, this file has been published by the college and used in their own research, and made publicly viewable and downloadable, so we are allowed to use whatever data is applicable to our mapping project.
Privacy/Ethics: Like the “Top 50” source, Carleton alumni are represented as nameless data points, but Carleton’s national rankings are also being depicted (thankfully this is also information publically accessible anywhere online). There is nothing private or sensitive included in the source, so nothing need be nixed.
“Academic Doctorates Earned by Carleton Graduates, 1966-2016 (Broad Disciplines).” Institutional Research and Assessment: Outcomes, Carleton College, https://www.carleton.edu/ira/outcomes/.
Format: This source is pretty much the exact same as the one above, but instead depicts data across a smaller sample of disciplines (each a broader category of the subcategories in the detailed data set). The table columns are the same (including the #s 556 and 2,714) and there are two bar charts visualizing the table’s data. We also need this in csv format, so we will treat it the same as the detailed discipline set so we can use it in ArcGIS.
Rights: Fortunately, this source is accessible via a PDF link directly below the PDF link to the detailed source above. On the “Outcomes” page of the IRA website, and owned by Carleton College. This published material is all available to us as data in our project.
Privacy/Ethics: This source essentially displays the exact same information as the source above, just under broader categories, so none of the data is private information and can use any of it without having to worry about privacy/ethical/legal issues.
Format: The Pathway tool is an interactive visualization on the Career Center’s website that shows the paths that Carleton students followed from their majors to arrive at their employment fields. The tool allows you to look for Carleton alumni either by major(s) or career(s) anytime between 1970 and the present, and the paths drawn between majors and careers are interactive and each break down into more specific careers from the broader categories. By clicking on the path to one of these careers, anyone with a Carleton login can access Carleton’s Alumni Directory. If we were to use data from this source, we would also need it as a cleaned csv file to use in ArcGIS, which we would do by manually inputting certain information in our pre-established columns.
Rights: The materials — website, visualization, and directory — are all owned by Carleton College. The website and Pathway visualization tool are both publicly accessible, down to the second “pathway level” when you click once, but once you reach the Alumni Directory, you are prompted to log in with Carleton credentials, meaning we are not allowed to display any private information held within (names, emails, phone #’s, home addresses, etc.). We know this because since the directory is already a private tool, we would need permission from each and every person to display their private information.
Privacy/Ethics: Once you get to the Alumni Directory, Carleton College alumni personal information is made available to current students so they can explore career paths of past Carleton students across majors. An alumni profile can consist of any combination of: headshot, legal name and nickname if applicable, graduation year, major(s), home address, email, phone #, spouse name, employers and employment positions, and post-Carleton education. For obvious reasons, a lot of this data is sensitive and private and we are unable to include it in our project. We would never want to release information that people had wanted kept private, so we will be very careful in incorporating any data from this directory.
