Unlocking the Secrets of Education with Big Data

Retention, the metric colleges to track students who return to school the following year, is a long-standing buzzword in higher education. Pressures as diverse as finances, public perception, and even a presidential agenda have brought retention to the headlines of higher education.

For all of the different terminology, data scientists will recognize this problem as a complex churn model. In a sense, it’s a matter of finding the corresponding triggers that lead to student turnover. But what it means in real terms is potentially changing the lives of thousands, and possibly millions, of students.

Radhika Subramanian

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