4 ways colleges are outsmarting data challenges
Colleges and universities turn to self-service analytics for better results, solving data challenges. Colleges and universities are home to the ... Read more
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Next-generation performance analytics solutions released
SOASTA, a provider of performance analytics, announced that it is now delivering next-generation performance insights for digital businesses with the addition of Third-Party Resource Analytics, Conversion Impact and…
Data, data, data
Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. I can’t fit all of this week's news stories here,…
Data analytics initiative aims to increase retention
McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, and ZogoTech, a provider of predictive data analytics services to higher education institutions, have entered into an agreement providing McGraw-Hill Education exclusive…
Data courses could include virtual reality
University of Wisconsin (UW) data science students could soon don virtual reality headsets to navigate and interpret data. A UW instructional designer says looking at Big Data in…
New trend sees higher ed bootcamps go 2.0
It seems that coding bootcamps are so 2015. For students eager to get into a burgeoning field that pays well, data science bootcamps promise to be the new…
UC students’ suit claims Google scanned accounts without permission
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Grant aims to leverage linked data for enhanced information access
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Stanford a $1.5 million grant to support library initiatives that develop and advance the use of linked open data. Stanford Libraries…
Capella U., SAS create career pathways for women in data analytics
The shortfall of big data and analytics professionals in the US could reach 190,000 by 2018. Women represent 47.4 percent of the labor force, yet they fill only…
8 ways wearables are influencing higher ed’s data use
As real-time data tracking and analysis becomes more ubiquitous for personal use, how can the higher education community use the Fitbit analogy to improve teaching and learning, to…