I’m Stephanie Fuentes, an institutional researcher for a small, for-profit college and I’m totally fascinated by the hype around data scientists and predictive analytics. Tom Davenport and D.J. Patil call it the sexiest job of the 21st century (according to an often-cited Harvard Business Review article). Who knew evaluators were in such demand?
My name is Alex Fink and I’m a Research Fellow in Youth Studies at the University of Minnesota. I’m a developmental evaluator with youth-serving organizations. I’ve watched the last five years as many organizations are asking youth workers to collect more and more data about program participants. As one worker I spoke to said, “We …
Helping Organizations Understand Data and Relationships with Clients by Alex Fink Read More »
Hello my fellow evaluators. This is Chris Lysy, world renowned evaluation cartoonist and owner of the recently formed independent evaluation & design consultancy Freshspectrum LLC. It’s happening. The business world is starting to turn on big data. There is a somewhat new-ish trend in coherent arguments on the perils of big data …
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I’m Stephanie Fuentes, an institutional researcher for a small, for-profit college and I’m totally fascinated by the hype around data scientists and predictive analytics. Tom Davenport and D.J. Patil call it the sexiest job of the 21st century (according to an often-cited Harvard Business Review article). Who knew evaluators were in such demand? As evaluators …
Hi, I am Jim Van Haneghan, Professor of Professional Studies at the University of South Alabama. I am writing today about Nate Silver’s book The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail-But Some Don’t. It is an intriguing book about statistical prediction and “big data.” For those who have not read the book, it …
Jim Van Haneghan on The Signal and the Noise in Evaluation Read More »
Greetings! I’m Nichole Stewart, a doctoral student in UMBC’s Public Policy program in the evaluation and analytical methods track. I currently work as an analyst, data manager, and evaluator across a few different sites including Baltimore Integration Partnership, Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative, and Carson Research Consulting Inc. Lessons Learned: The Growing Role of Data Science …
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