1. The Role of Business Intelligence & Data Science

2. 100% Online, Unbound by Time and Place
90,000+ Students
100,000+ Graduates
50 States + Overseas Military
Accredited, Online, Not for profit University
Working Adults, Average Age
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3. Corporate governance model
100% online – lots of data tracking
CBE - standard measures of learning

4. Meeting Cadence Biweekly Operations Review
Monthly Student Success Review
Quarterly Business Review

7. Course Health Dashboard

8. Analytics Prioritization Meeting
University Stakeholder
Institutional Research Rep
Agile Development Team

9. Databricks (Python, R, Scala, SQL, Spark)
Cognos
Tableau
SAS
SPSS
Databricks (Python, R, Scala, SQL, Spark)
Reporting and Presentation Layer
Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
Talend ETL
Source Systems
Banner
JSON
XML

10. Source Stage Process Audit Dim Fact RST (Resultset) Business Audit
INF (Information)
RST (Resultset)
Business Audit
RPT (Report)
RPT (Report)
RST – Resultset tables, highly denormalized tables with grain of business hierarchy and time dimension listing all metrics at one row level. 4th Normal Form multi valued facts
Example: RST_STUDENT, RST_MARKETING, RST_ASSESSMENT etc.
For data ACC (accuracy, completeness, consistency) we use AUDITS. Audits certify data for usage
Process Audits – To keep a check on the ETL process for source to EDW data flow. It helps to catch data issues upfront before the end users can see it
Business Audits – To notify business users and stake holders about data accuracy. It helps to catch any data anomaly
Agile development cycles
Performance optimized solution using Talend ETL, Oracle backend supporting Cognos/ Tableau/ SAS, SPSS, Spark for data presentation and query

11. What About Predictive Analytics?
Subject, Topic and Label sets pulling data from EDW
Python based predictive models
Daily risk scoring model and Admission decision model
EDW
Python Code
Saelsforce

12. What’s Next? Cloud Migration
Banner Cloud
AWS
Lambda S3 S3
Oracle
GoldenGate publishes Kafka Topics, which are consumed via this code, and simultaneously pushed to a log table in EDW