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What missing lander means for Europe’s quest to find life on Mars
Society, Politics & Law

What missing lander means for Europe’s quest to find life on Mars

...analysis of diagnostic information in the data package should inform ESA what might have gone wrong. It is clear from the telemetry data that the parachute deployed, the heat shield was jettisoned and the retro rockets fired briefly. But it will take a bit longer to determine what happened during the final few seconds of the descent. It is important to find this out...
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Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...data, such as survey results, or the analysis of a set of records, but may want to understand the reasons for patterns they’ve found in the data. In this case, qualitative interviews might be used with a smaller group (or sample) who are recruited from the research population. Asking this group questions about their experiences or opinions may help the researcher...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find that multiplexity – when two people have more than one relationship – was a rare but very relevant part of Chicago’s Prohibition era network. Their research highlight the ways that multiplexity links the underworld and the upper world — a process that organizes crime into mainstream society...[Al...
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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...data measuring subjective markers of happiness. But it also shows a dissatisfaction with modern economic ways of thinking, where morality and ethics take a back seat and bureaucratic cost-benefit analysis is the norm. Transcript Happiness is complicated The World Happiness Report uses a mix of GDP, social support (as measured by someone to count on in times of trouble),...
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Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?
Money & Business

Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?

...data protection acts and commercial sensitivities. A statistical analysis found that despite agents being trained in and encouraged to use a range of different linguistic strategies to create rapport with the customer, one particular way was clearly preferred over others: using the customer’s name. In one call, an agent used the customer’s name five times in a...
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Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...analysis to try to explore what’s really happening with those species that appear not to be responding to climate change. RH: And what is happening? CP: So what we did is we took a very large UK dataset, long-term dataset, 46 years on flowering plants, and what we looked at was not just were they responding to spring temperatures, which is sort of the simple analysis...
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More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...analysis. Decimals: A way of expressing numbers using place value, e.g. , Discrete data: Values that are clearly separated from one another, e.g. shoe sizes or modes of transport. Fractions: Parts of a whole number, e.g. , , , etc. Graph: A drawing which depicts the relationship between data or values. Inter-quartile range: The range of the values between the first and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Analytical science: secrets of the Mary Rose
Science, Maths & Technology

Analytical science: secrets of the Mary Rose

...analysis of the artefacts found on the ship, and the crew and their remains...This free course, Analytical science: secrets of the Mary Rose, teaches you about the analytical techniques that are used in the research and investigation of historical objects using the case study of the Mary Rose. It covers the use of sonar to locate shipwrecks, and the analysis of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs