Recently, “Data Scientist” has been coined the “sexiest job of the 21st century.” What makes a job sexy? Some argue that it is when demand is greater than supply, resulting in nothing less than high wages. In that sense, Data Scientist jobs are truly sexy. As with any job title, exact definitions vary, but some …
Lately I have had an opportunity to use interactive data visualization software. These are great – I think of them as an Excel or PowerPoint report you can change as you go, or filter, to see the angle of the data that you wish. Specifically, I have been in Tibco’s Spotfire, but also see Tableau and DigDash. …
Phoenix and Arizona State University were honored to be the host of the National Conference on Citizenship’s (NCOC) 66th annual conference this week, the first to be held outside of Washington, D.C. Many fascinating discussions were held, including yesterday’s panel on civility and political discourse and today’s panel discussing data, education, and dialogue. Yesterday, former …
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Peter Levine and CIRCLE just released a white paper entitled “Civic Engagement and Community Information: Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication.” The full report can be found here. In a time of well-publicized political incivility, Levine calls for the civil and deliberate use of the knowledge, data, and information that is around us to better …
The McKinsey Global Institute predicts a growing need of businesses to handle and analyze “big data.” New computer tracking of business data means opportunities for innovation and economic growth, if businesses can harness the benefits of the data, such as tracking fuel and shipping costs to, in turn, save on fuel and shipping costs. Data analysts …
Lucy Bernholz via the Stanford Social Innovation Review has an interesting blog post on what the next ten years will hold for nonprofits. The author looks in to her crystal ball and predicts that philanthropists will be interested in data analysis over the next ten years, similar to how evaluation was added as a strong …
I am honored to have been recently named to two boards. One is the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety’s (CVPCS) Advisory Board at Arizona State University. CVPCS is committed to improving public safety and well-being through evaluation of causes of violence and working towards violence prevention. Secondly, I was named to the Lodestar …
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FirstEval sponsored the No Women Left Behind bike group’s running team for the inaugural Scottsdale Women’s Half Marathon this past weekend. I am so happy FirstEval is a part of promoting this team – what a bunch of amazing women! Congrats to all the runners and teams.
A recent book by Peter Frumkin and Joanne Jastreb, Serving Country and Community, examines national service programs in America. In particular, it examines the efficacy of programs such as Americorps, or, rather, the lack of evidence, evaluation, and measurement that we have of such efficacy, according to Chris Jarvis’s review here. These authors are experts …
Two interesting news items to note: 1. The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) has released a book claiming that the Obama administration has not backed up their education policy agenda with research. In this age of evidence-based policy-making, this is quite a claim. They state that the administration’s research summaries are too biased and simplified, …
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