On November 20th, we held our fall ASC event at the Smith Campus Center. The lunchtime session was attended by over 70 ASC members. We welcomed our guest speaker, Harvard Gradaute School of Education and Harvard Kennedy School faculty member, James Honan, who led our group in a discussion about asking better questions to guide…
On May 9, we held our end-of-year speaker event and reception at the Science & Engineering Complex at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Over 100 virtual and in-person attendees welcomed our guest speaker, Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer in Public Policy, Lauren Brodsky, who discussed here new book “Because Data…
On March 23, the Analytics Staff Consortium held its first Spring Meeting. We welcomed about 45 people in person and 50 people virtually to the meeting. Harvard Kennedy School Professor Sharad Goel presented to the group about “The Science and Implications of Generative AI”. Registration Closed…
On Tuesday, October 10 the Analytics Staff Consortium had its first Fall Meeting since the relaunch of the group this past summer! We welcomed about 45 people in person and 60 people virtually to the meeting. The agenda included an update on generative AI from HUIT, faculty guest speaker Carrie Conaway, and results from the ASC Survey that was sent to the…
Join us for an engaging session with our guest speaker Jonathan Schwabish, who will talk about better ways to commnicate data: A first step to improving the way you communicate data and analysis is to have some basic understanding of best practices and strategies. In this talk, I lay out three principles for better data visualization: Show…
Analytics without Borders, the first event of the second year of ASC (as well as the last event of 2017), had more than 70 attendees eager to learn about institutional data and analytics from a group of prominent faculty in senior administration roles. Judith Singer shared details on a few of the projects that she worked on…
Originally published in November 2016 by the ASC Steering Committee Survey Background and Completion Rates In October 2016, the ASC Steering Committee emailed 365 staff members at Harvard who perform data analytic related job functions based on some initial inclusion criteria. The email introduced ASC and invited recipients to respond to a survey developed to gauge analytic interests and areas…
