dependencies chart with colors

Following Zoe’s excellent suggestion, I added color to the course dependency chart:

The arrows should be the same as the previous chart, though you’ll notice that because of the way I generated it, the chart now includes the classes that don’t have any edges connected to them.

The colors relate to the number of students that have enrolled in each class. Specifically, the log of the number of students that have taken the class from fall 2010 through spring 2016. Classes with zero enrollment are given log(0.5). The class with the highest value is red, the one with the lowest value is green. Yes, there should be a legend. Classes that aren’t in the Computer Science catalog are gray.

Note that I have no idea how many of these enrolls are repeats. That would be interesting, but I’ll need a different data source to answer that question.

The numbers for each class are interesting, and I think I’ll just publish them separately.