You Wouldn’t Skip a DBS Check — So Don’t Skip AI Safety
“We’d never put an unvetted adult in front of children — so why are we doing it with AI?”
CRM: Lessons From a Rollout Gone Wrong
It was a Tuesday afternoon, about 3:30pm. After weeks of preparation, months of discussions with SLT, and careful coordination with Heads of Year, we were finally ready to launch a new round of parent feedback sheets. We pressed send…. and the chaos started
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VLOOKUP in Google Sheets
Joining two tables together is a very common task for data analysis. Imagine you have these two tables Let’s say that the first table came from a Google Quiz you did, while the second came from your existing data. You’d like a quick way of adding each students score next to their name. VLOOKUP will
Teaching and learning
I taught my students how to cheat using ChatGPT and they hated it
If you’re on any teaching-related social media, you’ve been inundated by posts related to ChatGPT. This week, I decided to jump on the bandwagon and try a few lessons using the new tool. What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot. The premise is that you can ask ChatGPT a question, and it will
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An apology to Capita: why we slurped directly from the database
Health warning: this post is pretty technical! One of the key goals for our Data Dashboard was to have up-to-date information. Initially, we were dealing with just GL standardised data (CAT4 and PASS). However, as time went by we started to want to use our internal reporting data, logged concerns, and merits / behaviour data.
Data Dashboard
Visualising SIMS data: Treemaps, Hierarchies and Behaviour Data
How we used PowerBI to enhance our behaviour reports, taking us from massive Google Sheets to a clean, intuitive graphical interface.
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Visualising SIMS data: How are reports changing over time?
This post is the first in a series of entries I plan to make showing how we designed a bespoke data dashboard for our school. I’ll post links here to show how each aspect of our dashboard was created, leaving us with something that looks like this: The Problem At our school, we have a
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