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PABED A Tool for Big Education Data Analysis
Cloud computing and big data have risen to become the most popular
technologies of the modern world. Apparently, the reason behind their immense
popularity is their wide range of applicability as far as the areas of interest
are concerned. Education and research remain one of the most obvious and
befitting application areas. This research paper introduces a big data
analytics tool, PABED Project Analyzing Big Education Data, for the education
sector that makes use of cloud-based technologies. This tool is implemented
using Google BigQuery and R programming language and allows comparison of
undergraduate enrollment data for different academic years. Although, there are
many proposed applications of big data in education, there is a lack of tools
that can actualize the concept into practice. PABED is an effort in this
direction. The implementation and testing details of the project have been
described in this paper. This tool validates the use of cloud computing and big
data technologies in education and shall head start development of more
sophisticated educational intelligence tools