How Universities can use Campus-Wide Data to Increase Student Success
Most campuses realize the benefits of using data analytics to improve recruitment efforts and fine-tune financial aid packages. Now, information specialists are beginning to look at more creative and in-depth ways a broad spectrum of student data can be used...
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Bunker Hill Community College Receives National Award from Achieving the Dream
Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) received the Leah Meyer Austin Award for its success in increasing student retention and completion at the annual conference of Achieving the Dream in Orlando, Florida, today. Along with this prestigious recognition, BHCC will...
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Technology Innovations in Health Care – An HDM Interview with Mike Laracy
Recently, Rapid insight CEO, Mike Laracy, was interviewed for Health Data Management's Visionaries Magazine on Healthcare's next big trends. Here is the interview, republished from the Visionaries website. What are the top two or three technology innovations that...
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Predictive Analytics and Student Retention – 5 Questions with Jean Constable
Yesterday, we did a live interview with Jean Constable, Director Institutional Research at Texas Lutheran University. Like our other Five Questions sessions, we picked a topic related to the use of predictive modeling. This one focused on student retention. Jean has...
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Rapid Insight Chosen as Top Product by University Business Magazine Readers
Product Used By Hundreds of Colleges and Universities for Predictive Analytics Conway, NH – Rapid Insight Inc., the leading provider of easy to use predictive analytics and data blending software, today announced that it has been recognized for making a positive...
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Why Isn’t Scholarship (always) Predictive?
Lately I’ve had a few conversations with college enrollment staff who are concerned that scholarship dollars are not entering their models as major predictors of whether or not a student will enroll. Worse, some colleges are finding scholarship is negatively...
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Rapid Insight Adds Predictive Analytic QuickStart Solutions for PeopleSoft in Higher Education
Solution Accelerates Predictive Modeling Development Process For Student Retention and Enrollment Modeling Rapid Insight Inc., the leading provider of easy to use predictive analytics and data blending software, today announced the launch of another QuickStart...
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Using Technology for Student Success Ball State University
Rapid Insight customer, Ball State University, was recently featured in an article in the Star Press newspaper in Muncie, Indiana. The article is titled Tracking Students' Digital Footprint at Ball State In the article they discuss ongoing campus initiatives that are...
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Learning Data Science and Predictive Modeling at Your Own Pace
If you do a search on the terms “Big Data”, “Data Science”, “Predictive Modeling” or “Predictive Analytics” you will get back millions and millions of hits. The terms, like many other business terms before them, have become commonplace in many strategic discussions....
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Rapid Insight Creates Predictive Modeling Online Education Series
Free On-Demand Videos Provide Self-Paced Opportunity to Learn Predictive Modeling Conway, NH – Rapid Insight Inc., the leading provider of easy to use predictive analytic and data blending software, announced the rollout of its predictive modeling educational video...
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“Treble” Variables – a Humorous Look at Music and Predictive Modeling to Start the New Year
Editor's Note: As we begin 2015, we thought we would start with this humorous look at variables used in predictive modeling, courtesy of our data analyst, Jon MacMillan. Jon is well known around the office for his love of music, predictive modeling and New England dry...
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How Predictive Modeling can Benefit Student Recruitment Efforts
How do you predict what a 17 year old will want to do? Most parents would throw their hands up in the air and say "Good luck!" However, predictive modeling for student recruitment has proved that institutions of higher learning can, indeed, make astoundingly accurate...
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