Visualization 

 Challenge 

 I work in the design department at an educational startup which works on providing   counselling services for students who plan to study abroad in a good university of   their choice . My task is to create a dashboard for internal purposes that is to be   used by our counsellors for keeping a track of students enrolled for counselling   services and providing those students with the services to get admission at their   desired universities . The project timeline is 3 months and the solution includes an   even distribution of working hours amongst the design and development teams . We   will focus on trying to uncover what our team members and stakeholders consider   to be the proper flow of the dashboard along with the utilities and services to be   included in it . 

 Selection 

 I have used the visualization tool in order to fully understand the flow of the   dashboard . A discussion in this phase will allow all the stakeholders to share their   inputs with each other during the process of defining the scope , boundaries , key   elements and relationships between elements to consider while identifying pain   points and opportunities for improvements or solutions . 

 Application 

 I start the process by gathering all data required to fully understand the problem . I   will draw from existing material available to understand it . The existing material   includes historical data of students enrolled for counselling , references of   dashboards used in different industries . Also I conduct informal interviews with   one - three of the stakeholders who serve as my main points of contact for this   project . The stakeholders will be divided in terms of roles such as   developers , managers and counselors . Each of them will be shown a visual that   depicts the flow and fuctionality of the dashboard according to my knowledge and 

 understanding . The stakeholders can review and comment upon the shortcomings   and improvements needed . I record these findings and create a view that combines   the shared and new insights from the group discussion and then create a revised   visual that incorporates their feedback and proposed changes that they agreed to   as a group . 

 Insight 

 The main importance of this exercise was to gain valuable feedback from different   stakeholders and to reinforce their understanding of the problem we are working   upon . They can more quickly gain new insights about relationships between key   entities instead of taking time to identify them . Also it helps them to identify what   they do n’t know , in what areas they need to obtain information or data to provide   the values for the variables involved . 

 Approach 

 The current approach involves drawing a visual using pen and a notebook and then   discussing with different stakeholders and joting down their insights and   understandings of the problem . This is good for reference but not that good for   collaboration as some of the stakeholders wanted access to the visual anytime . So   a different approach can involve creating a visual digitally and then sharing it across   all stakeholders who then can share their insights in the form of comments and   drawings . This can help in easier collaboration among all and keep a track of the   different insights and problems uncovered by the respective stakeholders . For this   a tool like Whimsical(https://whimsical.com/ ) can be used . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Visualization 

 Challenge 

 I work in the design department at an educational startup which works on providing   counselling services for students who plan to study abroad in a good university of   their choice . My task is to create a dashboard for internal purposes that is to be   used by our counsellors for keeping a track of students enrolled for counselling   services and providing those students with the services to get admission at their   desired universities . The project timeline is 3 months and the solution includes an   even distribution of working hours amongst the design and development teams . We   will focus on trying to uncover what our team members and stakeholders consider   to be the proper flow of the dashboard along with the utilities and services to be   included in it . 

 Selection 

 I have used the visualization tool in order to fully understand the flow of the   dashboard . A discussion in this phase will allow all the stakeholders to share their   inputs with each other during the process of defining the scope , boundaries , key   elements and relationships between elements to consider while identifying pain   points and opportunities for improvements or solutions . 

 Application 

 I start the process by gathering all data required to fully understand the problem . I   will draw from existing material available to understand it . The existing material   includes historical data of students enrolled for counselling , references of   dashboards used in different industries . Also I conduct informal interviews with   one - three of the stakeholders who serve as my main points of contact for this   project . The stakeholders will be divided in terms of roles such as   developers , managers and counselors . Each of them will be shown a visual that   depicts the flow and fuctionality of the dashboard according to my knowledge and 

 understanding . The stakeholders can review and comment upon the shortcomings   and improvements needed . I record these findings and create a view that combines   the shared and new insights from the group discussion and then create a revised   visual that incorporates their feedback and proposed changes that they agreed to   as a group . 

 Insight 

 The main importance of this exercise was to gain valuable feedback from different   stakeholders and to reinforce their understanding of the problem we are working   upon . They can more quickly gain new insights about relationships between key   entities instead of taking time to identify them . Also it helps them to identify what   they do n’t know , in what areas they need to obtain information or data to provide   the values for the variables involved . 

 Approach 

 The current approach involves drawing a visual using pen and a notebook and then   discussing with different stakeholders and joting down their insights and   understandings of the problem . This is good for reference but not that good for   collaboration as some of the stakeholders wanted access to the visual anytime . So   a different approach can involve creating a visual digitally and then sharing it across   all stakeholders who then can share their insights in the form of comments and   drawings . This can help in easier collaboration among all and keep a track of the   different insights and problems uncovered by the respective stakeholders . For this   a tool like Whimsical(https://whimsical.com/ ) can be used .
### Output: 