It's our fall season of audio documentaries. We'll have three episodes over the next three weeks available in two different podcast feeds: APM Reports Documentaries and the Educate podcast. We begin today with this story about how schools are using predictive analytics.
Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates.
At Georgia State in Atlanta, more students are graduating, and the school credits its use of predictive analytics. But critics worry that the algorithms may be invading students' privacy and reinforcing racial inequities.