# Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Paul Carlin and Donna Gallagher (Staff Tutors at The Open University), and Claire Buchner (Assistant Director Digital Health & Nursing, DHCNI & Public Health Agency, NI).

It was adapted from a previous version of the course titled An introduction to data and information, which was published in 2012.

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Course image: in-future; Getty Images

Figure 1: taken from: https://covid-19.hscni.net/get-vaccinated/; HSC NI

Figure 2: NISRA / NINIS

Figure 3: The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, oil on oak, 1434. National Gallery, London

Figure 4: ExperienceInteriors; Getty Images

Figure 5: Antonina Prokhorova; Shutterstock.com

Figure 6: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada

Figure 7: Reproduced from: Royal College of Physicians. National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2: Standardising the assessment of acute-illness severity in the NHS. Updated report of a working party. London: RCP, 2017.

Figure 8: Map extract produced by FWT and reproduced with the kind permission of the Association of Train Operating Companies

Figure 9: Ordnance Survey map with permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, © Crown Copyright

Figure 10: John Snow (1813-1858); OOC

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Figure 13: reproduced by permission of AA; https://www.theaa.com

Figure 14/15/16a: Results from Google.com search

Figure 16b: Results from Bing.com search

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Figure 18: taken from https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html; JHU.edu Copyright © 2021 by Johns Hopkins University & Medicine

Figure 20: CNRI/Science Photo Library

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Figure 22: Example user interface: https://www.android.com/static/2016/img/tv/hero/tv-hero-mobile@us.jpg

Figure 23: © 2018 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank; cc-by

Figure 24: Results from Amazon.co.uk search

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