Abstract:

Graduates survey is a vital tool for testing how well an undergraduate or graduate academic programme performs in relation to the market needs and expectations. Graduates possess the real-world working experience and also do not feel any pressure in assessing their teachers, programmes and schools. In this paper we present our experience in analyzing data gathered from graduates of Business Information Systems master programme. We argue for R as an excellent open-source platform for doing data analysis, presenting its dynamic on the statistical packages market. Some of the most powerful R features for data visualization and exploratory data analysis are presented, as well as some tools for plotting and summarizing Likert scale data.