Obliviousness in Higher Education
Some schools’ actions are downright absurd.
Category: Higher Education
I’ve got no shortage of opinions on teaching, technology, analytics, and how they all intersect.
Why I’m Psyched about mmhmm
The startup may very well change how we deliver presentations—a welcome change indeed.
Never Waste a Good Crisis
Thoughts on what students can do in these trying times.
Geeking Out Over Scrabble in Python
Writing a little script to calculate the streak needed to hit a user-defined winning percentage.
Visualizing My Students’ Slack Messages
A Tableau dataviz that addresses the relationship between days active and messages sent.
Professors: Expect Your Student Evaluations to Drop
The online experiment likely means lower numbers at the end of the semester.
Tips for Professors Teaching Online for the First Time
Some tools to help newbies weather the transition.
Tableau Animations Are Here. Professors Take Note.
It’s a great time to spruce up a few assignments for my upcoming dataviz class.
Using Slack to Ghostwrite a Book: A Case Study
Add a few apps and make the flexible collaboration hub is ideal for this type of project.
The Wild Wild West of Analytics Programs
Pedagogy and definitions around higher ed’s trendy new discipline are anything but consistent.
My New Book
Analytics: The Agile Way—my eighth book—is out.
Featured Talk: How to Create a Culture of Analytics
A 50-minute talk about Big Data and what we can learn from Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and Google.
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