The ability to analyse data is fast becoming a base requirement in many roles. Data Essentials is designed to help you navigate this growing landscape and become data-literate.
Key topics
- Finding data based evidence
- Working in a data based world
- Making measurements
- Collecting clean data
- Ethical issues in data collection.
Learning outcomes
- Distinguish between anecdote and data, in the context of case studies
- Separate the different roles and skills of the researcher/data user, computer scientist, and data analyst
- Assess how particular variables can be measured to help answer a research question
- Evaluate the idea of garbage in – garbage out as it applies to data
- Understand the need for ethical approval in conducting research on humans and animals.
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