System and method for an education decision support library
First Claim
1. A method for providing an education decision support library in an educational environment to enable user access to information, over a processor based network, wherein the information assists the user in making a decision in the educational environment, the method comprising the steps of:
- loading operational data from one or more sources into a database;
providing one or more tools to extract and transform data into a decision support resource;
providing one or more analysis tools that enable a user to manipulate the data; and
accessing the one or more analytical tools over the processor based network.
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a method and system for providing an education decision support library to enable user access to information, over a processor based network. The information assists the user in making an administrative decision. The method includes the steps of loading operational data from one or more sources into a database; providing one or more analytical tools that enable a user to manipulate the operational data; and accessing the one or more analytical tools over the processor based network to assist in an educational environment.
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56 Claims
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1. A method for providing an education decision support library in an educational environment to enable user access to information, over a processor based network, wherein the information assists the user in making a decision in the educational environment, the method comprising the steps of:
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loading operational data from one or more sources into a database;
providing one or more tools to extract and transform data into a decision support resource;
providing one or more analysis tools that enable a user to manipulate the data; and
accessing the one or more analytical tools over the processor based network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 55, 56)
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31. A method for providing a decision support library to enable administrator access to information in an educational environment, over a processor based network, wherein the information assists the administrator in making an administrative decision, the method comprising the steps of:
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loading operational data from one or more sources into a database;
scrubbing the operational data, the scrubbing the operational data including removing operational peculiarities from the operational data and validating the operational data;
applying a transformation to the operational data to create a staging database;
providing one or more analytical tools that enable the administrator to manipulate the operational data in the staging database; and
accessing the one or more analytical tools and manipulating the operational data over the processor based network. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39)
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36. A method for enabling an administrator to access data relating to the operation of an educational institution, the method comprising:
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applying a business rule to operational data collected for one or more administrative topics related to the educational institution;
entering the data into a multidimensional data structure based on the business rule; and
presenting the administrator the multidimensional data structure through a network interface, wherein the network interface enables the administrator to manipulate the multidimensional data structure;
analyzing the operational data in the multidimensional data structure based on the manipulation of the multidimensional data structure by the administrator.
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40. A method for providing an education decision support library to enable user access to information in an educational environment, over a processor based network, wherein the information assists the user in a decision process, the method comprising the steps of:
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loading operational data from at least one source into a database;
scrubbing the operational data, the scrubbing the operational data including removing operational peculiarities from the operational data and validating the operational data;
applying a transformation to the operational data to create a staging database;
providing one or more analytical tools that enable the user to manipulate the operational data in the staging database; and
accessing the one or more analytical tools and manipulating the operational data. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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45. A system for providing decision support to enable user access to information in an educational environment, the information assisting the user in making a decision, the system comprising:
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an operational data source containing education related data;
a decision support portion, the decision support portion inputting operational data from the operational data source, the decision support portion scrubbing the operational data, the scrubbing the operational data including removing operational peculiarities from the operational data and validating the operational data, the decision support portion further applying a transformation to the operational data to create a staging database;
an analytical tool that enables the user to manipulate the operational data in the staging database, the user accessing the analytical tool and manipulating the operational data; and
a user interface, the user interface providing access to the analytical tool and displaying the operational data.
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52. A system for providing decision support to enable user access to information in an educational environment, the information assisting the user in making a decision, the system comprising:
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an operational data source containing education related data;
a decision support portion, the decision support portion inputting operational data from the operational data source, the decision support portion scrubbing the operational data, the scrubbing the operational data including removing operational peculiarities from the operational data and validating the operational data, the decision support portion further applying a transformation to the operational data to create a staging database, the decision support portion applying business rules to the staging database to create a plurality of multidimensional data structures, the plurality of multidimensional data structures being organized into one or more volumes according to a predetermined category of the operational data, wherein the user is enabled to arrange faces of the multidimensional data structures displayed on a user interface, using an analytical tool, to display different operational data;
the analytical tool enabling the user to manipulate the operational data in the staging database, the user accessing the analytical tool and manipulating the operational data; and
the user interface providing access to the analytical tool and displaying the operational data.
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53. A system for providing an education decision support library to enable user access to information in an educational environment, the information assisting the user in a decision process, the system comprising:
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means for loading operational data from at least one source into a database;
means for scrubbing the operational data, the scrubbing the operational data including removing operational peculiarities from the operational data and validating the operational data;
means for applying a transformation to the operational data to create a staging database;
means for providing one or more analytical tools that enable the user to manipulate the operational data in the staging database; and
means for accessing the one or more analytical tools and manipulating the operational data. - View Dependent Claims (54)
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