{"id":1968,"date":"2018-07-10T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T15:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2019-04-02T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:43:15","slug":"university-creates-new-data-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2018\/07\/10\/university-creates-new-data-department\/","title":{"rendered":"University Creates New Data Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2018\/university-creates-new-data-department-and-directors-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Analytical Services &#038; Institutional Research department (ASIR)<\/a><\/span>, combining the institutional research department with information services and technology, will improve analysis of data sources relevant to the University, such as social media, devices connected to BU\u2019s network, and digital scholarship and research. Universities are analyzing data more and more to better serve student needs and guide institutional strategic planning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Analytical Services &#038; Institutional Research department (ASIR), combining the institutional research department with information services and technology, will improve analysis of data sources relevant to the University, such as social media, devices connected to BU\u2019s network, and digital scholarship and research. Universities are analyzing data more and more to better serve student needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}