Public Insight Releases a Custom Metric Tool and a Crosswalk Between Degrees Awarded and Job Data

Public Insight, whose website transforms public data into insight, is expected to release its next update in August of 2014. With this update, Public Insight will include U.S. Federal Student Aid data to its platform. This dataset will be loaded for national higher education entities and will include new topics…

Public Insight, whose software platform analyzes data about people, places, and providers released a major platform update that includes a significant overhaul of its condition based filtering engine (Filter Builder). The new capabilities allow users to apply metric-based conditions to dynamically filter the universe of public entities.

This new data update will include information for higher education entities on fall enrollment related to entering class sizes, retention rates (full-time and part-time students), and student-to-faculty ratios.

Public Insight has just added Student Charges from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to the web platform. This data set was loaded for national higher education entities and will include a new “Student Charges” category, as well as new topics and series for higher education.

In the most recent data update to the Public Insight platform, Public Insight’s K-12 school district metrics have been updated to include the national “Common Core of Data” (CCD) data set. This update includes multiple new topics and series for enrollment and staffing from the CCD.