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  • Data Strategy Starts with Reporting Strategy
    Data Strategy Starts with Reporting Strategy

    I want our individual contributors to gain the skills and the hard learnings of working with xAPI so they can grow their skills and mature our practices independent of my spoon-feeding information when it finally seems relevant (to me). As a result, I get questions and feedback that helps me more effectively understand how, at… Read more

  • Lambdas vs. Deltas
    Lambdas vs. Deltas

    When I talk about analyzing things for deltas, I’m looking at the change in value. Before I analyze things for deltas, though, I’m looking for changes in the “shape” of the information (or data) — which are lambdas. Read more

  • Learning Engineering Tools for Testing xAPI Stuffs
    Learning Engineering Tools for Testing xAPI Stuffs

    You might’ve noticed in my last post and previously, I’ve made reference to wanting to test stuff against CATAPULT, as our infrastructure relies on cmi5. I wrote a little bit too fast for my brain, though. CATAPULT is one framework which tests your content and/or your system for cmi5 conformance. CATAPULT doesn’t handle things like… Read more

  • Governing How Survey Questions Relate to Concepts
    Governing How Survey Questions Relate to Concepts

    Today we defined the work-to-be-done to address the need for a top-down schema of the survey, so today let’s focus on how I’m thinking about our first xAPI Profile. Read more

  • My xAPI Analytics Goals for 2023
    My xAPI Analytics Goals for 2023

    Now that I seem to be back in the writing groove, I feel like it’s time to commit with some intentionality to how I want to learn and grow my own skills, and what I want to have shared through writing or producing another way, this year. Read more

  • Modeling, Up & Down: Statements & Profiles
    Modeling, Up & Down: Statements & Profiles

    This is the fourth in a series. In my last post, I identified at least two work-streams for the team to pursue in coming up with our analytics strategy, which for all intents and purposes is our integration strategy Read more