I recently developed some code to take student enrollment information and convert that into a visual map of the curriculum, showing how enrollments flow from one course to another. For example, you'd expect a lot of BIO 101 students to take BIO 102 within the next two semesters. In order to 'x-ray' course offerings, I have to set thresholds for displaying links. For example, a minimum transfer of 30% of the enrollment from one course to another in order to show up. There are many ways to add meta-data in the form of text and color, for example using the thickness of the graph edges (the connecting lines) to signify the magnitude of the flow. This is a directed graph, so it has arrows you can't see at the resolution I've provided. Other data includes course name and enrollment statistics, and the college represented. It can be used to isolate part of the curriculum at a time to get more fine-grained graphs.In the graph below, it's a whole institution's curriculum. The sciences, which are highly structure, clump together in the middle. Less strongly linked structures are visible as constellations around the center. I particularly like the dog shape lower left. This sort of thing can be used to see where the log-jams are, and to compare what advisors think is happening to what actually is.