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Humane Ingenuity 37: Data and the Humanities

Dan Cohen

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the many datasets we’ve wrestled with this year, it’s that all the data — every single point — is the result of human decision-making. As majors have sharply declined over the last decade, a thousand verbose defenses of the humanities have been published.

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Humanizing Data for Student Success

University Business

Click above to download the case study, free to University Business readers. And while USF, like many universities, saw a leveling off during the COVID-19 pandemic amid unprecedented strains placed on students and staff alike, the model underscores the importance of human interaction as critical to student success in a post-COVID world.

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Authenticity: honest authors, being human

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

I have rejected hundreds of approaches in recent years from individuals (I assume they were humans) who suggested they could write blogs for me. For me, in 2023, the key argument is surely about the human-authenticity equation. We need to learn to differentiate between computer intelligence and human intelligence. If it’s yours.

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Humane Ingenuity 41: Zen and the Art of Winemaking

Dan Cohen

Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. If you really want to nerd out, you can download gigantic spreadsheets that allow you to tweak those properties through extensive calculations. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.

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I Did a Boo Boo

Higher Ed Data Stories

Wanting to dive down a little deeper, I went to the College Board website to look at the data myself, and to "download" it for some additional analysis. I put the word download in quotation marks on purpose. These are insignificant differences to human readers, but they're a big deal for computers.

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Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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Doctoral recipients by bachelor's degree-granting institution, 2016-2020

Higher Ed Data Stories

Download your own table here if you don't believe me. It's the NSF, so they break degrees in science down farther than they do humanities degrees. Most important, you can filter by doctoral degree, so if you want to see which institution sends the most students to doctorates in chemistry, you can do so. This is what we have.

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