By OECD Statistics Directorate. Economic growth (GDP) always gets a lot of attention, but when it comes to determining how people are doing economically it’s interesting to look at other indicators that focus more on the actual material conditions of households. Let’s see how households in Germany are doing by looking at a few of these other indicators. More...
Le big data, entre espoir et perplexité
Par Florence Puybareau. Les experts le répètent sans cesse : le big data est appelé à tenir une place majeure dans les processus RH. Mais pour les professionnels, le sujet reste très conceptuel. Ils peinent à analyser les besoins et les compétences. Voir l'article...
Pôle Emploi pousse sa révolution avec l'ONG Bayes Impact
Par Anne Fairise. L’organisme public fait alliance avec des cracks du big data et de l’exploitation des métadonnées. Objectif ? Offrir aux demandeurs d’emploi un diagnostic à distance et des recommandations sur la meilleure démarche à adopter. Voir l'article...
Big data's coming of age in higher education
By Stefanie Botelho. There was a lot of hype around big data in higher education in 2015. Colleges and universities, inundated with data from legacy systems and incentivized by renewed accountability pressures, have begun to link disparate information from across the campus. More...
New data framework for higher ed has massive implications
By . Education bigwigs are currently designing a national metrics framework that will allow for the inclusion of data about today’s evolving higher-ed student. More...
Infographie :: du Excel au big data, il n’y a qu’un pas (et quelques erreurs)
88 % des feuilles de calculs issues des fichiers Excel contiennent des erreurs. Une infographie mise en ligne sur le site ITsicial.fr met en évidence quelques chiffres inconnus et pour le moins déconcertants : 38 milliards de dollars de décisions d'investissement reposent sur des feuilles de calcul. Elles concernent 78 % des décisions financières et 72 % des décisions et planifications. Seulement voilà, 9 feuilles de calcul sur 10 contiennent des erreurs. 6 feuilles de calcul sur 10 seraient mal conçues. 6 sur 10 requièrent des mises à jour manuelles. Et enfin, 1 sur 2 ne ferait l'objet d'aucun contrôle ni de gouvernance. Un pas de plus en faveur du Big Data, des analytiques et de la BI (Business Intelligence).
En savoir + :: 9 feuilles Excel sur 10 contiennent des erreurs (infographie)
Colleges Must Educate Students About Commercial Uses of Personal Data
It stands to reason that a for-profit consultant would advocate that higher education facilitate student consent to commercial applications “Muy Loco Parentis: How ‘Freakouts’ Over Student Privacy Hamper Innovation,” The Chronicle, February 2). There is money to be made in it. More...
Teacher Moneyball: Can big data and predictive analytics help find the next generation of star educators?
By . The teaching profession is facing a supply and demand challenge: retirement of baby-boomer educators is on the rise, while enrollment in teacher education programs is on the decline. More...
The benefits of big data
By Sarah Porter. A new report, From Bricks to Clicks: The potential of data and analytics in higher education, published on 26 January highlights the importance of data in the future higher education system and warns of the dangers of not acting now to embrace the opportunities that it offers. Read more...
Are universities making the most of their big data?
By Nicola Jenvey and Brendan O’Malley. It’s 2018 and Mario (18) isn’t sure which course units to take. He is struggling in his combined arts degree, he is behind on several assignments, and he is wondering if he has chosen the right mix of modules. Read more...