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 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] & 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
Figure 11: scanrail; Getty Images
Figure 12: KerrysWorld; Shutterstock.com
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
Figure 17: taken from: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/stopcovidni/id1519404160
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
Figure 21: biowiki.org; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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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