As you move through your academic career, you leave an enormous swath of data: which courses you chose to register for, which ones you looked at but didn't pick; and how you did on each homework...

As you move through your academic career, you leave an enormous swath of data: which courses you chose to register for, which ones you looked at but didn't pick; and how you did on each homework assignment, test, and project. Could this massive amount of data be analyzed to predict your grade in a course? Could the data suggest which courses you should take next? Should those predictions be public to your instructor, to you, and to financial aid officers?