Context

When I first read through the assignment, I immediately thought to how course unit counts don't accurately represent the number of hours you spend on a course. One of the most notable one is the Computer Science course Operating System Design and Implementation, which is a 15 unit course that reportedly takes up to 30 hours of time a week.

From this starting point, I then thought to see how many hours are spent on average overall courses in CMU's CS department, The ultimate goal was to try to find and exploit some correlation between course unit count and the amount of time spent on the course. That data however wasn't readily available on the database, but I found another interesting correlation to show. That is, the apparent increase in course load over time. Correlating this data with the overall course rating, I found that over the years, course load went up while course satisfaction generally went down. Deciding to communicate this idea in my graphical representation, I went and created an animation which extrapolated that data along line charts.