By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Institute for Higher Education Policy on Wednesday issued a set of recommendations on the nuts and bolts of creating a federal postsecondary student level data system. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education has yet to provide institutions this year with lists of graduates from gainful-employment programs -- a preliminary step for calculating debt-to-earnings ratios that measure whether career training programs saddle students with debt they can't repay. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. American universities and colleges warned to heed European data-protection rules -- or face millions of dollars in fines. More...

Techno-News Blog. The recent Strata Data Conference offered a look at the future of AI, big data, data science, machine learning, stream processing and more. The Strata Data Conference, held at the end of last month in New York, pledged to bring together the leading minds, and most promising new ideas, in big data. More...

Techno-News Blog. The Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics has unwraped a revision of the IPEDS database that will expand the government’s tools for measuring postsecondary outcomes, especially for the students who, for lack of a better term, are frequently called “nontraditional” (even though they now outnumber the “traditional” 18- to 22-year-olds). More...

Data Visualization Pitfalls to Avoid
Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, 2017/06/26
This is a really interesting slide deck (63 page PDF) on some topics in data visualization. It breaks roughly into three parts. The first is a survey of data visualization techniques, with a focus on different visualization tools or elements. More...

IEEE P7004: Standard for Child and Student Data Governance
Ieee, 2017/06/13

This group was constituted a couple weeks ago and meets monthly. More...