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Join us for a special 🌴Spring Break Collab🌴 with the Higher Ed, K-12, California Community Colleges, and University Teaching and Learning TUGs! We’re packing our virtual bags and taking a sunny tour through the world of education vizzes.

Community Spotlight

Jeffrey Shaffer

Let’s meet Jeffrey Shaffer, analytics leader and educator at the University of Cincinnati! When he’s not teaching, he serves as the Kirk and Jacki Perry Professor of Analytics and Director of AI Strategy at the University of Cincinnati’s Lindner College of Business. He teaches courses on data visualization and artificial intelligence, speaks globally on analytics and AI, and co-authors books including The Big Book of Dashboards and Dashboards That Deliver. In 2025, he received the Michael L. Dean Excellence in Classroom Education and Learning Graduate Teaching Award. Before joining academia full time, he spent nearly three decades leading analytics and technology teams, including serving as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of IT & Analytics at Unifund.

VOTD Author

Dennis Kao

Dennis will go behind the scenes of his School-Age Digital Connectivity viz, which uses an EDUvizzers data set to explore how connected school-age children are in terms of internet access and digital resources.

VOTD Author

Emmanuella Tudome

Emmanuella will showcase her Academic Performace Tracker, which uses AI-generated data to bring student profile insights to life.