Data from the Department of Education. Visualization is done in Tableau. This is a PDF of the output. As mentioned in many outlets already, the Northeast is in for a rough few years.
I thought the next layer would be more Obsidian configuration. It wasn’t. More graph view, more backlinks, more manual connection-making. That is what I used to do in Roam. I would spend real time threading notes together, following paths between ideas, maintaining a map of how everything connected. I did not do any of that….
Every admissions cycle, colleges make thousands of offers. A fraction of those students say yes and show up in September. The rest go somewhere else. Enrollment managers have always suspected they knew where. Suspicion and data are different things. For most IR offices, the standard answer to “where did our admits go?” was a spreadsheet….
The cost of attending college has been a major concern for the last several decades now. Every year, tuition has continued to rise unabated, far outpacing the rate of inflation. During that time, the sticker price of our institutions has become much greater than most students are willing or able to pay. Cost remains a…
The census file and the bi-weekly interim files all have the same format. With this process, most of the time is spent ensuring that the data file is clean and properly configured. Below is a data dictionary of a sample file.
The debate about AI’s effects has been running for three years and producing mostly heat. Not because the researchers are wrong. Because they are not studying the same thing. Here is the clearest version of what I mean. A major 2025 meta-analysis of 69 studies found that ChatGPT produces significant positive effects on academic performance,…
