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Focusing on ease of use is the best way to approach the massive amount of information available about life after college. When I look back at the decade between 2014…

The transition from traditional textbooks to digital interfaces was the first major shift I tracked in my sixteen years as a data analyst. Today, we are seeing a much more…

There is a specific kind of comfort found in a well-organized spreadsheet. When the world feels chaotic, data offers a structured map. For a data analyst, looking at a clean…

They say if you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything. In my sixteen years as an education data analyst, I have found that you do not need…

In the world of higher education, we often talk about “value” as if it is a single, fixed number. During my sixteen years as a data analyst, I have learned…

The ease of care for one’s career trajectory significantly improves when you treat an internship not as a trial period, but as a data-gathering mission. For years, I have analyzed…

The landscape of education data is shifting from simple enrollment counts to sophisticated longitudinal tracking that follows students from the classroom into the workforce. This innovation allows us to move…

Discussing regional needs that is relevant to the topic. In my 16 years as a data analyst, I have seen how local economies shape the demand for social science graduates….

Imagine a world where every urban high school student has access to a personalized data dashboard that maps their specific path to a degree based on local economic trends. This…

I recently helped a friend renovate an old row house in Philadelphia. We spent weeks peeling back layers of wallpaper and sanding down floorboards. What looked like a simple aesthetic…