Eric Ekholm
@ekholm_e
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Education Data Specialist for Chesterfield Co Public Schools (@ccpsinfo). Interested in education, data science, reading & writing, and cute dogs.
Richmond, VA
Joined November 2012
New edudata blog post: being data-driven vs being data-informed #datascience #education
https://t.co/ZQsmxo1Hql
edudata.blog
Within the past week or so, I’ve encountered two people who have purposefully distinguished between being “data driven” and “data informed.” First, Rick Saporta differentiates these two approaches in...
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Most data science work is just asking SMEs to help me understand their data/help me make sure I’m filtering the data correctly.
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I just pushed v0.1.0 of my {blueycolors} #rstats package to GitHub. Check it out if you’re interested in using Bluey-themed colors in ggplot: https://t.co/34yfUCnOcM
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After a few week hiatus, edudata is back with another post. This one reviews Virginia’s fall-to-spring VALLSS growth report and offers some critiques about measuring student growth using ordinal categories: https://t.co/lj8iYbDWZT
#datascience #education
edudata.blog
Programming note: I’m back after a long summer hiatus. I honestly just kind of lost motivation to do weekly posts. So, moving forward, I’m not going to promise weekly posts. I’ll shoot for a 1 or 2...
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This week’s Edudata blog post is on the narrative fallacy, school improvement, and root cause analysis https://t.co/cpZQ8z3MDt
#education
edudata.blog
I recently read this article on the Ludicity blog about the narrative fallacy, and it got me thinking about how this applies to education. Just to make sure we’re all on the same page, the narrative...
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I regret some of my posts about google sheets last week. They went too far.
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New edudata blog post: alternatives to stacked bar charts, plus some thoughts on data viz tradeoffs #datascience #education
https://t.co/LenHAAw8f8
edudata.blog
Stacked bar charts aren’t good plots, and this is a hill I will die on. Even though everyone over the age of, say, 7, has seen a stacked bar chart at some point in their lives and probably intuits...
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New edudata blog post: in which I self-consciously offer a framework for data-driven decision making #datascience #education
https://t.co/biCyWG4Nny
edudata.blog
I’ve mentioned in multiple posts on this blog that the primary “point” of data is to help inform decisions. There are probably occasions where it’s useful to just report out on broad compliance-y...
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New edudata blog post: what can educators learn from luxury brands like Hermes? #datascience #education
https://t.co/TWbZQlWLrR
edudata.blog
I’ve been very much into the Acquired podcast lately. The premise of the podcast is that each episode describes a single company, usually beginning at some pivotal pre-company occurrence (the birth...
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New edudata post: do we really need “big data” to tell us obvious things? https://t.co/jElQgKEzbS
edudata.blog
I recently stumbled onto a preprint research article examining the writing quality of college students before and after the introduction of ChatGPT, as well as some reporting on the same article...
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This week’s Edudata post is a reaction to Emily Oster’s recent article on why we still need test scores: https://t.co/3DhEiYXgav
#education
edudata.blog
Programming Note: I’m doing an intensive AI training next week, so there will be no post on 4/4. I’ll be back again the following week. Emily Oster recently published an article (post? blog?) on her...
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This week’s Edudata newsletter is about writing, AI, and owning your thinking: https://t.co/USLSF8DbRT
#education #datascience
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I recently read The Productivity Shift (TPS) – a report from Grammarly with the basic premise that businesses should use AI to help employees communicate better, which will increase productivity. You...
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New edudata post: when do predictions about students’ future performance help? TLDR; not often 👇 #datascience #education
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New edudata blog post: does your data’s structure match the question you’re trying to answer? #datascience #education
https://t.co/tRgAbjAOdX
edudata.blog
I have this thesis that people in education often get frustrated with data – or they feel like data is useless – because the structure of the data they’re collecting doesn’t allow them to answer the...
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In this week’s Edudata post, I review the (completely overcomplicated and superfluous) Readiness component of Virginia’s school performance framework 👇 #datascience #education
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