Chancellor Harold O. Levy has ordered the New York City public school system's 32 district superintendents to meet with his deputies at least four times a year to analyze reams of data about their students, schools and teachers, and outline strategies for improvement.
B3 EDUCATION City School Plan Chancellor Harold O. Levy has ordered the New York City public school system's 32 district superintendents to meet with his deputies at least four times a year to analyze reams of data about their students, schools and teachers, and to outline strategies for improvement.
A couple of years ago, some exceedingly bright minds from the worlds of computer science and business created Farecast, a site that takes reams of data about airline ticket pricing and analyzes it to let consumers know if the fares for trips they want to take at a given moment are going to go up or down soon.
EAGER to leave town for the Fourth of July weekend, I was determined to finish a project at work that involved entering reams of data into a spreadsheet.
So the teams placed 750 sensors on the sea bottom for a close-up scan, then crunched the huge reams of data with a supercomputer.
I knew that a digital future would involve reams of data and that businesses would have to make sense of a lot of fragmented data.
For years, education experts have dreamed of a group that would gather reams of data on New York City's public schools, analyzing the numbers to figure out what works, and what does not, in schools.
Philae fell silent soon afterwards, but not before dispatching reams of data and a shot of optimism to a continent that has had little to cheer.
A snarl of sensors and wires is attached to nearly every part of the humming engine, feeding reams of data to a battery of computers and watchful engineers in the adjacent control room.
So the two economists scurried back to their respective offices and, over the next three days, did what economists do: plugged reams of data into a computer and ran regressions, statistical speak for the search for patterns.
