A systematic mapping study on the usage of software tools for graphs within the EDM community

Abstract

The field of educational data mining (EDM) has been slowly expanding to embrace various graph-based approaches to interpretation and analysis of educational data. However, there is a great wealth of software tools for graph creation, visualization, and analysis, both general-purpose and domain-specific, which may discourage EDM practitioners from finding a tool suitable for their graph-related problem. For this reason, we conducted a systematic mapping study on the usage of software tools for graphs in the EDM domain. By analysing papers from the proceedings of previous EDM conferences we tried to understand how and to what end graph tools were used, as well as whether researchers faced any particular challenges in those cases. In this paper, we compile studies that relied on graph tools and provide answers to the posed questions.