Introductory

Career, Program, Plan – The Structure Beneath the Student Journey  Most people think of a student record as a collection of courses and grades. In reality, it rests on a deliberate and carefully layered structure. At its core is a hierarchy of career, program, and plan, organized… Read More

What does DSA do? The primary focus of the Office of Data & Strategic Analytics (DSA) is to ensure that Vanderbilt’s decision-makers can access data they trust to do their jobs better. We want to make data the oil that keeps the Vanderbilt engine humming, and to keep it… Read More

We talk about data all the time along with dashboards, metrics, reports, and insights. But having data is not the same as understanding it and understanding data is not the same as being able to use it well. According to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK), data literacy is… Read More

A 30-minute introduction to using Data at Vanderbilt. Introduction to Data with Vanderbilt’s CDO Olivia Kew-Fickus Launches in Oracle Learn… Read More

If I imagine myself waking up to a notification showing statistics that I should have slept more, it summons feelings of hopelessness. Inevitably, I should have slept more but the way to enable that involves witchcraft on a toddler, and I don’t possess a wand. It’s tempting to track sleep… Read More