Data Visualization on the Life Cycle of Science and Technology Projects

Science and technology project management system is a fundamental tool in modern governments which is required for the effective management of research arrangement, financial resources, project implement and researcher communication. However, despite its successful development, there are still many visualized application scenarios that require customized methods to explore data integration, and to establish visualization of project life cycle. To that end, this paper focuses on science and technology project data model and business data model based on four phases of management workflow. Furthermore, we propose a project life cycle model, a three-layered data structure for combining all the data of a project, to facilitate dynamic integration among project data and business data. In addition, we present a system architecture including its functional layers and data flow, which improves project life cycle visualization, and especially displays the details of project and business data in a prototype web page. This research contributes to project management business visualization by providing data models and system architecture, and helps project managers in making decisions, managing business operations and tracking the progress of tasks.

I. Introduction

Science and technology project management plays a crucial role in national science and technology development. During China's 13th Five-Year Plan period, Ministry of Science and Technology has invested more than 100 billion RMB to promote national science and technology innovation. In order to implement the management reform of the national science and technology plan, Chinese government presented some policies, such as five categories of science and technology plans implementing [1], research performance improving [2], the burden on researchers reducing [3].