ChatGPT in Data Visualization Education: A Student Perspective
Nam Wook Kim, Hyung-Kwon Ko, Grace Myers, Benjamin Bach

TL;DR
This paper investigates how ChatGPT influences student learning in a data visualization course, highlighting its benefits, challenges, and impact on engagement and assignment outcomes.
Contribution
It provides an empirical analysis of ChatGPT's role in data visualization education, including student interactions, perceptions, and design considerations for educational tools.
Findings
ChatGPT enhances student understanding and engagement.
Students use ChatGPT for diverse visualization tasks and troubleshooting.
Barriers include limitations in complex problem-solving and understanding context.
Abstract
Unlike traditional educational chatbots that rely on pre-programmed responses, large-language model-driven chatbots, such as ChatGPT, demonstrate remarkable versatility to serve as a dynamic resource for addressing student needs from understanding advanced concepts to solving complex problems. This work explores the impact of such technology on student learning in an interdisciplinary, project-oriented data visualization course. Throughout the semester, students engaged with ChatGPT across four distinct projects, designing and implementing data visualizations using a variety of tools such as Tableau, D3, and Vega-lite. We collected conversation logs and reflection surveys after each assignment and conducted interviews with selected students to gain deeper insights into their experiences with ChatGPT. Our analysis examined the advantages and barriers of using ChatGPT, students' querying…
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Taxonomy
TopicsOnline Learning and Analytics · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
