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Andrew Drinkwater

How Professional Relationships Can Guide Your Career Path

Lynne helped me to understand the return on investment from implementing Tableau: In my case, I was saving about an hour every week, in addition to new capabilities. I was earning about $50k, so $30/hour. This meant Tableau paid for itself in 33 weeks.

Forecasting Enrolment in New Programs

New programs introduce complexity to your enrolment forecast. By definition, they do not have past history to rely on for a prediction – what is an enrolment professional to do? Here’s how to handle them in stride:

Welcome to the new Plaid.is - making your SEM data work for you

We are very excited to announce the launch of our newly designed website, built from the ground up.

Effective Partnerships Between Academic Units and Central are Key

Answering, “How many students are we going to have?” involves not only predicting the future but defining the parameters in which it is possible. Neither central administration nor academic units can successfully forecast future enrolments without the other.

Tips for Moving to Near-Real-Time Data in Higher Education

Learning to work with daily or real-time data feels like learning to drink from a firehose. As more universities and colleges move to having near-real-time data, we offer these helpful tips.

5 Reasons to Start Your Career as an Enrolment Services Data Professional

Often when we think of data professionals in higher education, we think of institutional research and analysis, and IT. Here I’ll talk about why starting my career as an enrolment services analyst helped me hone my data craft.

The Data Only Updates 3x Per Year?

Snapshots can also be helpful with enrolment forecasting – in particular, many users I speak to don’t want their forecast to change daily, instead every second week or even every month.

Still Rolling Over Manually?

We used to update our scenario data monthly during the fall term and at end of the fiscal year. After this all was quiet until the dreaded rollover to the next academic year in summer.

What Programs Do We Even Offer?

Working in Institutional Research, I often was asked questions around “What programs do you offer?”, or “How many programs are there?”. You’d be surprised that answering these questions is not as easy as it sounds.

When is a New Scenario a New Scenario?

Scenario versions are based on user-controlled parameters, automatically updated parameters, and changes in your data model. Tracking the outputs of your scenarios allows you to go back and reflect on the results, seeing where there are opportunities for improvement.