'Flowing Data': Strength in Numbers

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SCUP's newest book is A Guide to Planning for Change by Donald M. Norris and Nick L. Poulton. In it they address data analysis and reporting in support of decision making, and speak of what they call "analytics for the masses," meaning "A new generation of tools supporting analytics and alignment enables planners and strategists to rigorously measure, assess, and refine their strategies throughout cascading cycles of expeditionary execution. These analytics are not just for so-called 'power users,' but for all administrators, faculty, and staff." (p. 32)

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Many kinds of SCUPers are interested in data: collecting it, analyzing it, displaying it, using it for decision making. Flowing Data is a website devoted to cool ways of reporting and using data - data visualization. Browsing in here you can get glimpses of what a future life with more and more information analytics will be like. Many people post here. The owner describes it to newbies this was:

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. If you're new here, welcome to FlowingData. A good place to start is the archives where you'll find FlowingData's most popular posts or take a look at the FlowingData beginner's guide. If you like what you see, subscribe to the feed. It'll only cost $1 million to do so. Yes, I'm totally serious. Really - which makes me a trillionaire.