I was invited to speak at this week’s TechWomen Breakfast about “Tips To Be a Savvy Consumer of Data.” I had a wonderful time talking with over 40 attendees about biases, mean vs. median, and how important it is to keep your eye on the Y axis! During and since there were a few questions… Read More
I recently was fortunate to co-moderate a discussion on race and ethnicity in New Hampshire via the New Hampshire Community Conversation that I host with my partner, Tiffany Eddy. At one point a guest, Rogers Johnson, mentioned the demographic profile of blacks and other minorities in New Hampshire, namely, that apart from the fact that… Read More
Join me and my colleague Tiffany Eddy as we host a virtual town meeting this Thursday night. Our focus is on the food service industry here in NH, and our guests are Amy LaBelle, founder and owner of LaBelle Winery, and Tom Boucher, CEO of Great NH Restaurants (T-Bones – CJ’s – Copper Door). Watch… Read More
Right now, we’re all struggling. Our families, ourselves, our jobs, our businesses….this coronavirus pandemic caught us all off-guard. One way to navigate through the uncertainty is to use your data as a guide. I’m offering a free, 30-minute consultation to businesses and organizations that want to use their data as a tool to figure out… Read More
I speak in my daily life about numbers, about the power of numbers, about interpreting numbers, and about the power of graphs and charts to let us really “see” what the numbers are saying. I draw upon experts such as Edward Tufte, Cole Nusbaumer Knaflic, Nathan Yau, Alberto Cairo, and Steven Few, among others to… Read More
There’s more and more data created every year. Businesses are generating more and more data every day. Data about their customers, their products, their employees. Business owners are surrounded by data, but they can’t seem to make use of it. Case in point: In the 2019 PwC Annual Global CEO Survey, CEOs voiced how dissatisfied… Read More
The National Student Clearinghouse’s Research Center has just released the Fall 2019 estimated U.S. enrollments in postsecondary education, and for the nation as a whole, the news isn’t good. The NSC estimates that enrollment has decreased 1.3% from last year. Since the NSC began producing this analysis in 2012, enrollments have dropped each year. In… Read More
With college cost continuing to rise, students and families want to know the return on investment for investing in higher ed. Last month, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) released, “A First Try at ROI,” a thorough report that aims to answer just that. In it, CEW calculates the Return on Investment… Read More
I woke up this morning to another college closure: Marlboro College (VT) will become the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. It joins 3 other Vermont colleges that have announced closures in the past year. [The others are the College of St. Joseph, Green Mountain College, and Southern Vermont College.]… Read More
In July we documented the impact of the “Kalamazoo Promise” program. Begun in 2006, this program covers 100% of the cost of tuition at selected colleges in Michigan for any student who graduated from the Kalamazoo public schools. Now Wayne State University has announced a similar program, the Heart of Detroit Tuition Pledge. Detroit residents… Read More