LAK11: Big Data Small Data « Viplav Baxi's Meanderings - 0 views
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which data is more appropriate - BIG or small
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most discussion about big data centres on quantity
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other elements you mention – implication, new models, new decision making approaches – all flow from this abundance of data.
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Shiny Badges Everywhere. - Neoteny - 2 views
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Book Excerpt: The Numerati by Stephen Baker - BusinessWeek - 0 views
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BusinessWeek's 2006 Cover Story, "Math Will Rock Your World," announced a new age of numbers. With the rise of new networks, the story argued, all of us were channeling the details of our lives into vast databases. Every credit-card purchase, every cell-phone call, every click on the computer mouse fed these digital troves. Those with the tools and skills to make sense of them could begin to decipher our movements, desires, diseases, and shopping habits-and predict our behavior. This promised to transform business and society. In a book expanding upon this Cover Story, The Numerati, Senior Writer Stephen Baker introduces us to the mathematical wizards who are digging through our data to decode us as patients, shoppers, voters, potential terrorists-even lovers.
News: Technology and the Completion Agenda - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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Data analytics is shorthand for the method of warehousing, organizing, and interpreting the massive amounts of data accrued by online learning platforms and student information systems - now as elemental to higher education as classrooms and filing cabinets - in hopes of learning more about what makes students successful, then giving instructors (and the platforms themselves) the chance to nudge those students accordingly.
The State of Educational Data Mining in 2009: A Review and Future Visions - 1 views
[SCoPE] LAK11: Playing around with Hunch - 0 views
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Also, "liking" itself is a very limited way of expressing your thoughts on something. You might like pizza, but no anchovis. If you dislike a Pizza Anchovis, what does the system store? On the other hand, some interesting analogies and recommendations can be done with relatively simple like/dislike statements and multiple choice answers.\n\nHunch should incorporate serendipity.
Video Demo of UMBC's "Check My Activity" Tool for Students (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUC... - 0 views
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Analysis of 1,461 courses using Blackboard in spring 2010 showed that D and F students used the course management system 47 percent less than students earning a C or higher.
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Analysis of 1,461 Blackboard courses. D & F students used CMS 47% less than students earning a C or higher. LAK11 http://tinyurl.com/4fp7oyk
Academic Analytics: The Uses of Management Information and Technology in Higher Educati... - 0 views
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"This study analyzes the outcomes at more than 380 higher education institutions. It looks at what the chosen strategies have accomplished, in what ways institutions use the data they collect, whether institutions are investing more resources in tools that enable them to collect and manipulate management information, and the degree to which information and analysis are being used to support institutional decision making."