Analytics & AI (AAI)

Mission

Analytics & AI provides timely and accurate data, analytics, reporting solutions and insights to support the University’s strategy, planning, reporting and decision-making processes. We make our work available via the University DataCommons as well as customized services, reports and projects for stakeholders and working groups.

More specifically, AAI:

• Collaborates with academic and administrative departments across the university to: identify data sources, identify data quality issues, improve data quality and management, build a data catalog, standardize data definitions, identify and acquire new datasets, develop a centralized data depository using a “data lake” approach, and develop integrated data platforms and information sharing tools.
• Provides institutional research services and support for federal, state, programmatic and survey reporting.
• Promotes and advances a culture of data usage, data literacy, data transparency, data integrity, data management, and data access and sharing aligned with user roles and data needs.
• Provides end user training to the university community on the decision support tools and solutions provided.

AAI offers the following services:

• Descriptive/Diagnostic/Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics
• Dashboard and Reporting
• External and Internal Reporting
• Data Collection, Aggregation, and Analysis
• University-wide Data Strategy
• Advocate Data Quality and Integrity
• Data Knowledge base
• External Data Acquisition
• Best Practice & Knowledge Management
• Thought Leadership

For more information email aiesupport@vt.edu.