Month: January 2018

Now you know what makes the difference

The Quantified Student Conference 2018: photo-impression

The 11th of january, the third annual Quantified Student conference was set to begin. People were flooding in the building R5 at FontysICT in Eindhoven. All were wondering what to expect of this conference. Could it give us new insights as to how to measure everything in students’ daily lives? Can we measure everything just…
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STUDENTS DATA DRIVEN BUSINESS PRODUCT

Students of the minor Data Driven Business did research in the best way to use data to help students succeed. You can download the report here. Most interesting was the insight in how fast students lose interest. In september we saw 105 students turning up. In november this number was down to 72. ResearchReportv1.2.7

REPORT ON CONFERENCE (IN DUTCH)

Yesterday we organized the third quantified student conference. Two hundred passionate people listening to inspiring presentations and eating burgers. See, the Dutch report below: https://bron.fontys.nl/studenten-willen-geen-big-brother-maar-een-big-mother/  

A BIG DATASET

The Great People from Dartmouth used an Android App on smartphones to track students during a semester (10 weeks, 48 students). They tracked everything from sleep to location, to phone usage, to conversations, partying and so on. They also anonimized the dataset. Can you find new relations? The description of the dataset: http://studentlife.cs.dartmouth.edu/dataset.html The dataset: http://studentlife.cs.dartmouth.edu/dataset/dataset.tar.bz2…
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PAPER ON STUDENTLIFE

The Student Life project from Dartmouth University produced a paper on their findings. This is very interesting, and strangely also a bit boring, stuff. Read it here. studentlife