Illuminations and Insights

To ensure that dashboards genuinely help educators, we start with the end in mind: what data should be included, how it should be displayed, and why it will be useful for the people who rely on it. Rally, EA's data visualization product, is meant to provide a snapshot of student data, with one key area being assessment data. Rally is not meant to replace the detailed reports provided by assessment vendors. Instead, it is meant to provide an effective overview of that data. Therefore, at EA, we strive to make well-informed decisions on what to display so teachers and administrators can access the right data at the right time to make the right decisions. In this blog, Product Manager Joshua Terchek and Senior Data Engineer Manager Susan Xiong discuss the process of building out these meaningful dashboards within our data visualization products, Rally Analytics Platform and Podium.

Get to know Product Manager Joshua Terchek in the latest installment of our Day in the Life blog series. In this blog, Joshua discusses his product development work on EA's data visualization tools, Rally and Podium, how asking thoughtful questions and leading with empathy helps him build better products, and how he discovered his passion for cooking.

The amount of data generated by schools and school districts continues to grow and it is a challenge to bring together all of those data in a manner that informs timely action. Our latest product, Podium, empowers education agency leaders with actionable data to help better serve students, families, and staff. In this blog, we describe how Podium helps to deliver the right data at the right time.