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Integrating Common Data Analytics Tools Into Non-Technical Undergraduate Curricula, Kurt Kirstein
Integrating Common Data Analytics Tools Into Non-Technical Undergraduate Curricula, Kurt Kirstein
All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies
Aside from statistics courses, accessible data analytics skills are often excluded from traditional non-technical university programs. These are topics that are typically the domain of programs that focus on math, statistics and computer science. Yet the need for these skills in non-technical disciplines is changing. A rapid expansion of data-related processes in organizations of many types requires individuals who have at least a working knowledge of common analytic tools. This article briefly describes three categories of data analytics tools that can be useful for graduates in any discipline. The first category covers descriptive tools that allow students to learn what …
The Analytics Managers Ultimate Guide For Working With Universities, Robert J. Mcgrath
The Analytics Managers Ultimate Guide For Working With Universities, Robert J. Mcgrath
Faculty Publications
The challenges organizations are having related to finding (and retaining) deep analytical talent did not materialize out of thin air…or overnight. Analytics and Data science – and the role of the analytics professional – has evolved over the last several decades and has been fueled by our ability to capture and process increasingly larger and more complex variations of data and our desire to gain increasingly granular insights to fuel innovation and creativity. While many organizations recognize that a partnership with a university can be a resource to many of these challenges, the best way to start a conversation with …
Student Insights Report, Fall 2019, The Center For Student Analytics
Student Insights Report, Fall 2019, The Center For Student Analytics
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For the past three years, the staff of the Center for Student Analytics have worked to discover and expose meaningful, data-informed insights into what helps students succeed at Utah State University. The following pages highlight 20 of the most useful insights we found provided here in small sets that will be useful to students, faculty, staff, university leadership, parents, and even prospective students. As you explore this report, we encourage you to see the student data as a window into USU itself. While big data helps us understand how individual students are performing, it tells us a great deal more …