Poster presented at QAA Annual conference, 9-10 May 2017, East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham

1. Team Tom
QAA’s Marieke Guy was part of Team Tom, which included members from the
Universities of Oxford, Nottingham, Kent and Plymouth, as well as representatives
from CETIS and JISC.
Team Tom focused on research and developed three user stories:
l PGR student experience
l Brexit planner
l REF planner
Get involved:
Would you be interested in attending an analytics lab that focuses on
quality assurance? If so, contact Marieke Guy (m.guy@qaa.ac.uk)
Creating data dashboards to support planning
Overview of Analytics Lab
l A joint project run by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and Jisc
l Cross institutional teams from university strategic planning departments work
together to analyse HESA and other data sources for new business insights
l The teams agree on user generated business questions that are pertinent for
the HE sector and then answer them by designing data dashboards
l Dashboards to be delivered through the HESA HeidiPlus BI System
Try out data
manipulation and
analysis tools such as
Alteryx and Tableau
In asscociation with
Work collaboratively
using agile methodology
Identify and negotiate
access to a wide selection
of HE collections