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Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...Data analysis is an essential part of any research design. It needs to be closely linked to the theoretical approach and methodology as well as to the plans for disseminating the research results. Data analysis is the research activity that dives into the evidence, structures it and explains it. Data analysis and interpretation help us prepare the ......
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Article 15 mins
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...Data analysis: visualisations in Excel: Introduction - The objectives of this course are to explore ways to visualise data sets in Excel, familiarise yourself with Excel functions and explore the relationship(s) between variables. [A graphical illustration of different types of charts (e.g. pie chart, line graph).] Figure 1 Making sense of visualising and exploring data...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...data management and analysis...Making decisions about the world based on data requires a process that bridges the gap between unstructured data and the decision. Statistical hypothesis testing helps decision-making by formulating beliefs about the world, including people, organisations or other objects, and formally testing these beliefs. In this free course, you will...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Are movies really getting longer?
History & The Arts

Are movies really getting longer?

...data analysis, we can see rationalization at work. Integrative Biology professor Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) recently looked at a database of movies from IMDB since 1920. His figure (called a joyplot) lets us compare distributions of movie run times and see how they have changed over the years. [Graph showing lengths of movies as described in the text] While older films had...
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Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge

...data analysis also need to be acknowledged. We sought to provide a space to discuss these emotional impacts through debriefing meetings, phone and Skype calls. A core aim was to understand how the death of a relative affected the emotional wellbeing of family members. In line with feminist methodologies, we recognised that emotions have epistemological significance in...
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Article 5 mins
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...data analysis and highlighting how database development differs from traditional software development...No idea how relational database systems are constructed? Did you know that they underpin the majority of the managed data storage in computer systems? This free course, The database development life cycle, has been designed to give you an overview of the developmental...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Do people really behave in a rational way?
Money & Business

Do people really behave in a rational way?

...data analysis. Incidental emotions are more of a problem. If our choices can be governed by unrelated emotions, we are not always rational after all and economists' tools based on rational choice are undermined. Perhaps for this reason, economists have never to my knowledge taken these findings any further. To our surprise, the participants' emotional state had no...
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Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...Data analysis requires following unintended free associations as well as/instead of the narrative arc. Using this method to listen to mothers’ experiences during late pregnancy and the first year of babies’ lives, we found that their choice of themes, emotional tone and associative links augmented and complicated participants’ narratives. Interviews were...
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