Dr. Ellen Wagner is co-founder of the PAR (Predictive Analytics Reporting) Framework and serves as chief research and strategy officer. PAR is a non-profit provider of learner analytics as a service, focused on institutional effectiveness and student success. She continues as Partner and Senior Analyst with Sage Road Solutions, LLC. She served as Executive Director of the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technology from 2009 through 2013. Ellen is the former senior director of worldwide eLearning, Adobe Systems, Inc. and was senior director of worldwide education solutions for Macromedia, Inc. Before joining the private sector, she was a tenured Professor and Chair of the Educational Technology program at the University of Northern Colorado, and held a number of administrative posts, including Director of the Western Institute for Distance Education and Coordinator of Campus Instructional and Research Technologies, Academic Affairs. Her Ph.D. in learning psychology comes from the University of Colorado - Boulder. Her M.S. and B.A. degrees were earned at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Less   View all posts

Author of Tableau Data Visualization Cookbook, Ashutosh R. Nandeshwar is one of the few analytics professionals in the higher education industry who have developed analytical solutions for all stages of the student life cycle (from recruitment to giving). He enjoys speaking and ranting about data professionals' chase of "interesting" things (example: http://youtu.be/dHbl9t5eNjg). He received PhD/MS from West Virginia University and BEng from Nagpur University all in industrial engineering. You can follow him on Twitter @n_ashutosh and on his website Less   View all posts