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Data Governance Readiness: Addressing Overlooked Data Literacy Skills in Higher Education Roles

In preparing for a formal data governance program, an institution should be aware of and address these gaps through a basic data literacy training program for all employees. A data literate organizational culture is key to the success of a data governance program.

7 Reasons to Replace Your Professional New Year’s Resolutions with a Bingo Card of Possibility

When I was hired by Plaid we created a 60-day plan of goals for onboarding. As the goals shifted over time, I became focussed on what I wasn’t accomplishing. This year, I wrote a list of potential achievements and put them on a bingo card.

Why the Academic Library is your Friend as an Institutional Researcher

While conferences offered idea generation and excitement for the institutional research office, regular reading kept me energized about my work. Giving analysts time to read and collect ideas is an easy retention strategy.

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.

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.

20 years of wonder. Happy birthday, SFU Surrey

My undergrad degree was a transformative experience. Like my current job, the path to there wasn’t all that linear either. Back in high school, I vowed I would attend university away from home, live in a dorm, and so on. But that isn’t what happened.

Two decades of data wrangling, and I’m still learning new things

Many institutions we work with struggle with the subscription models employed by many software vendors. Each time you onboard new staff, there is an added license cost that you didn’t plan for in your budget. But with FME, the cost of adding new staff to the platform is exactly zero.

Lessons from my (first!) live interview on the Ravit Show

When Ravit first approached me about being on the show, I was a bit nervous with the idea of presenting live to a global audience. But the more I thought about it, about the more I realized this is exactly the kind of thing I’ve been working towards.

Tableau Changed My Life

Back in 2007, I downloaded a free trial of Tableau Software, a company no one I knew had heard of. Their mission was to help people see and understand their data. How many software tools have changed your life? Tableau changed mine.