IVLE Python Clickstream Workshop

An entry-level tutorial using Python and its packages to work with the Canvas LMS clickstream data.

By Jihyun Park (jihyunp@ics.uci.edu)
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
June 2, 2017 (Modified on Aug 25, 2017)

Outline

Part 1 : Warm Up

• Basics of List
• Useful functions for string
• Working with folder and file paths
• Dictionary

Part 2 : Load Data

• Load data from a single csv file
• Load multiple csv files from a folder

Part 3 : Convert the Data into a Matrix

• numpy arrays
• Transform loaded data to a mtrix

Part 4 : Save Matrix into a csv File

• Save a matrix into a text .csv file using csv package

Part 5 : Plotting with matplotlib.pyplot

• Bar plot
• Heatmap

Part 6 : Different Click Matrices¶

• Number of homepage/file clicks
• repeat the part 3-5

Part 7: Students with more/less activities

• Thresholding with np.where()
• Re-ordering the rows in a matrix (2D np.array)