AHE TIG Week: Harnessing Big Data in Higher Education: Evaluators as Data Scientists by Stephanie Fuentes
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?