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Seeing Is Believing: Using Power BI to Visualize Alumni Earnings
As higher education institutions continue to recover from challenges presented by the pandemic, they are forced to grapple with persistent nationwide enrollment declines as well as student perceptions regarding the value...Read Moreabout: Seeing Is Believing: Using Power BI to Visualize Alumni Earnings -
Five Steps to Standardizing IPEDS Data Access at Your Institution
IntroductionThis eAIR Tech Tip provides advice for institutional researchers who utilize Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data for benchmarking, look-back, market, and similar landscape analyses. Wi...Read Moreabout: Five Steps to Standardizing IPEDS Data Access at Your Institution -
The Versatility of the XLOOKUP
LOOKUP, launched in 2019 by Microsoft, combines the functionality of multiple functions, including VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, into a single source. It also offers the option to select a customized variable if no data are retur...Read Moreabout: The Versatility of the XLOOKUP -
Walking Through an Enrollment Forecasting Example
A key development in higher education over the past several decades is the growth of institutional research offices that function under the core principles of explaining what is happening now and attempting to shed light...Read Moreabout: Walking Through an Enrollment Forecasting Example -
Mapping in Tableau
Visualizing geographic information helps data consumers quickly and easily derive insights and meaning. Institutional researchers, for example, may want to map students' home states or countries to help campus administra...Read Moreabout: Mapping in Tableau
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