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

The August 2016 Public Insight release provides extensive improvements in search capabilities, data source audit trails, and multi-level database extracts. The text searching capability allows you to type any search term and Public Insight will return a list of data sources and path to the metrics containing the search term….

Public Insight has recently updated its data analysis platform to include the addition of the new College Scorecard data provided by the U.S. Department of Education. With the addition of this data, users will be able to interconnect data from the College Scorecard database with information from sources such as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), U.S. Federal Student Aid, and many others. Users…

With the addition of statistical areas, users will now be able to analyze and compare demographic, social, economic, job and housing information more effectively and efficiently than using source data sites individually.