{"id":3740,"date":"2014-07-16T14:21:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2014-07-16T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:22:04","slug":"big-data-101-colleges-hoping-predictive-analytics-can-fix-graduation-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/big-data-101-colleges-hoping-predictive-analytics-can-fix-graduation-rates\/3740\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data 101: Colleges are hoping predictive analytics can fix their graduation rates"},"content":{"rendered":"Welcome to college, freshmen. Now look at the neighbor on your left, and the neighbor on your right. One of the three of you won&#8217;t be here at graduation. Decades ago, colleges would start off freshmen orientation by pointing out how many students wouldn&#8217;t succeed. The practice has gone out of style. But the graduation rate has barely budged: less than two-thirds of students who start college ever finish. So the central mystery of higher education remains the same: who will graduate? Who won&#8217;t? What separates the successes from the dropouts?\u00a0 And how can colleges turn the latter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/big-data-101-colleges-hoping-predictive-analytics-can-fix-graduation-rates\/3740\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to college, freshmen. Now look at the neighbor on your left, and the neighbor on your right. One of the three of you won&#8217;t be here at graduation. Decades ago, colleges would start off freshmen orientation by pointing out how many students wouldn&#8217;t succeed. The practice has gone out of style. But the graduation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[42,351,8],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-big-data","tag-education","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}