Education

Mining Data Across the Campus

Campus Technology: At Clemson University (SC), data architects and business teams are developing a multidimensional database about campus facilities. By merging in data from financial systems, Brett Dalton, vice president for finance and operations, can see the size of rooms and their condition and can ask questions about the university's costs associated with them. "We are creating a robust picture of an asset, how it is managed and what it produces in terms of bottom-line productivity," he said. "We can be more strategic in targeting preventative maintenance dollars and renovation dollars. Some things come to life when you look at them in an integrated fashion. We might decide we need to tear a building down."

That approach is an example of Clemson's increasing focus on data-driven decision-making, which is spreading from finance and operations to other parts of the university, including facilities, research and even sports. Dalton said he is not certain the desire or need for analytics has changed, "but because of the tools and expertise and the continuously dropping cost of doing this type of work, we are able to utilize data-driven decision making more readily, more freely and across a wider spectrum. The big thing is that the tools and technology available make it so that if we fail to utilize them, we are being irresponsible."

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