Details Tag Content Analysis
This report analyzes all <details> tags in the textbook chapters to categorize visualization types and prioritize skill development.
Summary Statistics
- Total
<details>tags: 57 - Unique visualization types: 10
Visualization Type Distribution
| Type | Count | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| diagram | 15 | 26.3% |
| graph-model | 10 | 17.5% |
| chart | 9 | 15.8% |
| workflow | 7 | 12.3% |
| infographic | 5 | 8.8% |
| microsim | 5 | 8.8% |
| timeline | 3 | 5.3% |
| portfolio-quadrant-chart | 1 | 1.8% |
| map | 1 | 1.8% |
| markdown-table | 1 | 1.8% |
Priority Matrix for Skill Development
Prioritization based on Impact (frequency of use) vs. Effort (similarity to existing MicroSims).
Priority Scores
| Rank | Type | Count | Impact (0-10) | Effort (0-10) | Priority Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | graph-model | 10 | 6.7 | 1 | 6.67 | 🔨 Build |
| 2 | microsim | 5 | 3.3 | 0 | 3.33 | ✅ Exists |
| 3 | diagram | 15 | 10 | 4 | 2.5 | 🔨 Build |
| 4 | infographic | 5 | 3.3 | 2 | 1.67 | 🔨 Build |
| 5 | chart | 9 | 6.0 | 5 | 1.2 | 🔨 Build |
| 6 | workflow | 7 | 4.7 | 6 | 0.78 | 🔨 Build |
| 7 | timeline | 3 | 2.0 | 7 | 0.29 | 🔨 Build |
| 8 | map | 1 | 0.7 | 5 | 0.13 | 🔨 Build |
| 9 | markdown-table | 1 | 0.7 | 5 | 0.13 | 🔨 Build |
| 10 | portfolio-quadrant-chart | 1 | 0.7 | 5 | 0.13 | 🔨 Build |
Interpretation
- Impact: Higher values indicate more instances of this visualization type across chapters
- Effort: Higher values indicate more development effort required (less similar to existing MicroSims)
- Priority Score: Impact/Effort ratio - higher scores suggest better ROI for skill development
Visual Priority Matrix
Quadrant Analysis
High Impact, Low Effort (Priority 1): - graph-model (Impact: 6.7, Effort: 1, Count: 10) - diagram (Impact: 10, Effort: 4, Count: 15) - chart (Impact: 6.0, Effort: 5, Count: 9)
High Impact, High Effort (Priority 2): - None
Low Impact, Low Effort (Priority 3): - microsim (Impact: 3.3, Effort: 0, Count: 5) - infographic (Impact: 3.3, Effort: 2, Count: 5) - map (Impact: 0.7, Effort: 5, Count: 1) - markdown-table (Impact: 0.7, Effort: 5, Count: 1) - portfolio-quadrant-chart (Impact: 0.7, Effort: 5, Count: 1)
Low Impact, High Effort (Priority 4): - workflow (Impact: 4.7, Effort: 6, Count: 7) - timeline (Impact: 2.0, Effort: 7, Count: 3)
Detailed Breakdown by Type
Diagram (15 instances)
Chapter: Introduction to ITIL and Configuration Management
Summary: ITIL Framework Structure Diagram
Purpose: Illustrate the hierarchical structure of ITIL v1-v3 showing the relationship between Service Support, Service Delivery, and Configuration Management
Chapter: Introduction to ITIL and Configuration Management
Summary: Traditional CMDB Data Flow and Integration Architecture
Purpose: Illustrate the complex integration challenges of traditional CMDB implementations showing data flows from multiple sources
Chapter: IT Asset Management Fundamentals
Summary: Hardware vs. Software Asset Management Architecture Diagram
Purpose: Illustrate the parallel yet distinct data flows for hardware and software asset management within an IT management graph
Chapter: IT Asset Management Fundamentals
Summary: IT Asset Lifecycle State Machine Diagram
Purpose: Illustrate the complete lifecycle states of an IT asset from acquisition through disposition, including state transitions and governance triggers
Chapter: Relational Database Fundamentals
Summary: Relational Database Schema Visualization
Purpose: Illustrate the schema structure for an IT asset management database showing tables, columns, data types, and foreign key relationships
Chapter: Relational Database Fundamentals
Summary: Primary Key and Foreign Key Relationship Diagram
Purpose: Visually demonstrate how primary keys and foreign keys establish relationships between tables, showing data flow through key references
Chapter: Relational Database Fundamentals
Summary: B-Tree Index Structure and Search Visualization
Purpose: Illustrate how a B-tree index accelerates data lookup compared to sequential table scanning, showing tree structure and search path
Chapter: Observability, Monitoring, and Automated Discovery
Summary: The Three Pillars of Observability Diagram
Purpose: Illustrate how logs, metrics, and traces work together to provide complete observability of IT systems
Chapter: Observability, Monitoring, and Automated Discovery
Summary: OpenTelemetry Data Flow Architecture
Purpose: Show how OpenTelemetry collects telemetry from applications and sends it to observability backends, enabling automated IT graph updates
Chapter: Observability, Monitoring, and Automated Discovery
Summary: Automated Discovery Architecture Diagram
Purpose: Show the complete architecture of a modern automated discovery system that populates an IT management graph from multiple data sources
Chapter: Compliance, Risk Management, and Security
Summary: HIPAA Data Flow Tracing Diagram
Purpose: Illustrate how graph traversal identifies all systems processing ePHI in a healthcare organization
Chapter: Compliance, Risk Management, and Security
Summary: Compliance Audit Evidence Generation Flow Diagram
Purpose: Illustrate how IT management graphs enable rapid, comprehensive audit evidence generation compared to traditional manual processes
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: Digital Transformation Maturity Model for IT Management
Purpose: Illustrate the progression from traditional IT management to fully transformed graph-based approaches
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: AI-Enhanced IT Management Graph Architecture Diagram
Purpose: Show how AI/ML components integrate with the core IT management graph to provide intelligent capabilities
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: Exception Reporting Dashboard Mockup
Purpose: Show a realistic IT governance dashboard displaying business rule exceptions
Graph-Model (10 instances)
Chapter: IT Asset Management Fundamentals
Summary: IT Asset Relationship Graph Interactive Model
Purpose: Demonstrate the relationship types connecting IT assets in a management graph, showing how asset, application, and service layers interconnect
Chapter: Graph Theory and Graph Database Foundations
Summary: IT Infrastructure Nodes Interactive Visualization
Purpose: Demonstrate how different IT infrastructure entities are represented as nodes in a graph database, showing node labels, properties, and visual styling
Chapter: Graph Theory and Graph Database Foundations
Summary: IT Infrastructure Graph with Nodes and Relationships
Purpose: Extend the previous nodes visualization by adding directed relationships, demonstrating how edges connect IT infrastructure entities to create a meaningful dependency graph
Chapter: Graph Theory and Graph Database Foundations
Summary: Deployment Dependencies as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)
Purpose: Demonstrate how IT component dependencies naturally form a DAG structure, showing deployment order requirements and illustrating how topological sorting determines safe deployment sequences
Chapter: Graph Database Technologies and Query Languages
Summary: Dependency Graph with Cycle Detection Visualization
Purpose: Demonstrate cycle detection in an IT dependency graph, showing both healthy DAG structures and problematic circular dependencies that need architectural attention
Chapter: Graph Database Technologies and Query Languages
Summary: Cypher Pattern Matching Interactive Visualization
Purpose: Demonstrate how Cypher pattern matching works by showing a query pattern (template) and highlighting all matching subgraphs in a larger IT infrastructure graph
Chapter: Graph Traversal and Dependency Analysis
Summary: Bidirectional Dependency Tracing Visualization
Purpose: Demonstrate upstream and downstream dependency tracing from a central component, showing how direction affects the scope of analysis
Chapter: Graph Traversal and Dependency Analysis
Summary: Multi-Layer Dependency Map Visualization
Purpose: Demonstrate how different dependency types (business service, technical service, application, infrastructure) form layers in an IT management graph, showing cross-layer dependencies
Chapter: Business Services and IT Portfolio Management
Summary: Business Service Mapping Visualization: End-to-End Dependencies
Purpose: Demonstrate complete business service mapping from customer-facing business service through technical services and applications down to infrastructure, showing the value chain
Chapter: Compliance, Risk Management, and Security
Summary: RBAC Permission Graph Visualization
Purpose: Demonstrate how Role-Based Access Control is modeled in an IT management graph, showing users, roles, resources, and permission flows
Chart (9 instances)
Chapter: Relational Database Fundamentals
Summary: Query Performance Comparison Chart: RDBMS JOIN Performance by Hop Count
Purpose: Demonstrate exponential performance degradation in RDBMS multi-hop queries compared to constant-time graph database traversal
Chapter: Graph Database Technologies and Query Languages
Summary: Native Graph Storage vs Graph Layer Performance Comparison
Purpose: Visually demonstrate the performance difference between native graph storage and graph layers as traversal depth increases, showing why native architecture matters for deep graph queries
Chapter: Data Quality and Data Management Excellence
Summary: No summary
Purpose: Visualize data quality across multiple dimensions for an IT management graph, showing strengths and areas needing improvement in a clear, intuitive format that enables quick assessment and tracking over time
Chapter: Query Performance and Real-Time Operations
Summary: Query Performance Comparison: Graph vs Relational Databases
Purpose: Demonstrate the dramatic performance difference between graph and relational databases as query complexity increases
Chapter: Observability, Monitoring, and Automated Discovery
Summary: Network vs. Service Topology Comparison Chart
Purpose: Illustrate the differences in discovery methods, data sources, and use cases between network topology and service topology mapping
Chapter: Compliance, Risk Management, and Security
Summary: Compliance Dashboard Overview Chart
Purpose: Provide executive-level overview of compliance status across multiple regulatory frameworks
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: Migration Timeline with Risk and Value Curves
Purpose: Show the four-phase migration journey with overlaid risk and value curves, demonstrating how risk decreases and value increases over time
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: TCO Comparison Chart: Three Options Over Five Years
Purpose: Compare total cost of ownership across three solution options (ServiceNow, Atlassian, Custom Build) over a 5-year period, showing cost breakdown by category
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: ROI Waterfall Chart: From Costs to Net Value
Purpose: Visually show how an initial investment of $647K transforms into net value of $2.336M through various benefit categories, making the ROI calculation intuitive and compelling
Workflow (7 instances)
Chapter: Relational Database Fundamentals
Summary: SQL Query Execution Visualization
Purpose: Show the step-by-step process of how an SQL query is parsed, optimized, and executed by an RDBMS
Chapter: Relational Database Fundamentals
Summary: Schema Evolution Timeline: Adding Heterogeneous Device Types
Purpose: Demonstrate the challenges of evolving a relational schema when adding new, heterogeneous entity types with different attributes
Chapter: Query Performance and Real-Time Operations
Summary: Performance Monitoring Dashboard Workflow
Purpose: Illustrate the continuous improvement cycle for IT management graph performance monitoring and optimization
Chapter: Observability, Monitoring, and Automated Discovery
Summary: Configuration Drift Detection Workflow
Purpose: Illustrate the process of detecting, alerting, and remediating configuration drift using automated discovery and graph comparison
Chapter: Compliance, Risk Management, and Security
Summary: Risk Assessment Workflow Diagram
Purpose: Illustrate the continuous risk assessment process using graph-based IT management data
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: Technology Selection Workflow with Decision Gates
Purpose: Illustrate the structured process for evaluating and selecting IT management graph technology, with decision gates at key points
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: Graph RAG Query Flow Interactive Diagram
Purpose: Show the step-by-step process of how a natural language question flows through a Graph RAG system to produce an answer
Infographic (5 instances)
Chapter: Introduction to ITIL and Configuration Management
Summary: IT Asset Hierarchy Infographic
Purpose: Show the hierarchical relationships between different types of IT assets with examples and clickable details
Chapter: IT Asset Management Fundamentals
Summary: Application Portfolio Strategic Quadrant with Dependency Visualization
Purpose: Create an interactive application portfolio quadrant (business value vs. technical quality) where clicking applications reveals their dependency networks, demonstrating why portfolio decisions cannot be made in isolation
Chapter: Relational Database Fundamentals
Summary: JOIN Types Comparison Interactive Visualization
Purpose: Create an interactive visualization demonstrating different JOIN types using Venn diagrams and sample data, showing how each JOIN type affects which rows appear in results
Chapter: Query Performance and Real-Time Operations
Summary: Scaling Strategies Comparison Infographic
Purpose: Provide an interactive visual comparison of vertical vs horizontal scaling with clear pros, cons, and use cases
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: IT Modernization Interconnected Domains Infographic
Purpose: Show how different modernization streams interconnect and reinforce each other, with IT Management Graph at the center
Microsim (5 instances)
Chapter: Relational Database Fundamentals
Summary: Multi-Hop Query Dependency Traversal Visualization
Learning Objective: Demonstrate how multi-hop queries traverse dependency chains in relational databases, showing the increasing complexity and intermediate result sets as hop count increases
Chapter: Graph Theory and Graph Database Foundations
Summary: Graph Traversal Algorithm Comparison: DFS vs BFS
Learning Objective: Demonstrate the differences between Depth-First Search and Breadth-First Search traversal algorithms through interactive animation, showing how each algorithm explores a dependency graph
Chapter: Query Performance and Real-Time Operations
Summary: Graph Density Visualization MicroSim
Learning Objective: Help students understand how graph density affects traversal performance and query complexity
Chapter: Observability, Monitoring, and Automated Discovery
Summary: eBPF Network Connection Discovery Interactive MicroSim
Learning Objective: Demonstrate how eBPF monitors kernel-level network events to automatically discover service dependencies without application instrumentation
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: Build vs Buy Decision Matrix Interactive Tool
Learning Objective: Help students understand the multi-dimensional nature of build vs buy decisions by exploring how different factors influence the recommendation
Timeline (3 instances)
Chapter: IT Asset Management Fundamentals
Summary: Multi-Source Asset Discovery Integration Timeline
Purpose: Show the evolution of IT asset discovery techniques from manual inventory through modern automated telemetry integration
Chapter: Observability, Monitoring, and Automated Discovery
Summary: Dynamic Topology Update Timeline Visualization
Purpose: Illustrate how dynamic topology discovery responds to infrastructure changes over a 10-minute period in a cloud-native environment
Chapter: Compliance, Risk Management, and Security
Summary: Regulatory Framework Timeline
Purpose: Illustrate the evolution of major IT compliance regulations from 1990 to present, showing the increasing sophistication and scope of regulatory requirements
Portfolio-Quadrant-Chart (1 instances)
Chapter: Business Services and IT Portfolio Management
Summary: No summary
Purpose: Visualize applications positioned across TIME (Time-Invested-Money-Eliminate) quadrants based on strategic value and technical quality, with bubble sizes representing cost and colors indicating dependency complexity
Map (1 instances)
Chapter: Compliance, Risk Management, and Security
Summary: GDPR Cross-Border Data Flow Map
Purpose: Visualize data flows subject to GDPR restrictions, showing which transfers require additional safeguards
Markdown-Table (1 instances)
Chapter: Digital Transformation and Advanced Topics
Summary: Vendor Comparison Table: ServiceNow vs Dynatrace vs Atlassian
Recommendations
Based on the priority analysis, focus on developing skills for:
- graph-model - 10 instances, priority score 6.67
- Example: IT Asset Relationship Graph Interactive Model
- diagram - 15 instances, priority score 2.5
- Example: ITIL Framework Structure Diagram
- infographic - 5 instances, priority score 1.67
- Example: IT Asset Hierarchy Infographic
- chart - 9 instances, priority score 1.2
- Example: Query Performance Comparison Chart: RDBMS JOIN Performance by Hop Count