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How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...data set - that is, quote a value as a rate (per weekday, for example, or per head of population (that is, per capita)) or as a percentage - provides one way of doing this. At other times, we may need to add another form of correction or adjustmentto the figures that allows us to be able to make a fair comparison against a particular basis. For example, for comparing...
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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...data shows that 75% of the top 300 tennis players were aged 3 to 7 years when they started playing, whilst 21% began between the ages of 7 to 10 years, and only 4% started their tennis involvement between the ages of 10 to 13 years (Li et al., 2020). Yet, although Raducanu began playing tennis at a very young age she avoided the intensity that specialising in only one...
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Systems Practice
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems Practice

...of British debate is how little analysis is made in ... systemic terms' - Will Hutton If you want to generate a fresh perspective on complex issues; if you want to break out of traps and rigid ways of thinking; if you want to get things together more in your life then you're in the right place. Explore, and see if you can use systems practice to improve your processes....
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Migrant businesswomen and the census
Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...data collected from the Census. The best way to discover when this new content is live to subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on our social media channels: Twitter, Facebook or Instagram . About the project [Laura Hampton ] The project will tell herstories of twentieth-century migrant women entrepreneurs by comparing their presence in the latest available 2011 Census...
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The planet as the stakeholder
Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...analysis Edward Freeman’s concept of stakeholder analysis is often used as a strategic management theory to identify people and groups who have a vested interest in a business’s activities. This approach encompasses seeking engagement with such groups as employees, suppliers, competitors, members of the local community and others in the direct communication channels...
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Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...data where there has been public funding of the underlying work...Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?: 1.1 The variety of ‘open’ - The word cloud in Figure 1 illustrates some of the terms associated with ‘open’, e.g. education, access, research, source, data, science, publication and massive online courses. [Image of a tag cloud showing different...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...data would be discrete). Before carrying out a detailed analysis of any dataset, it is a good idea to examine the values to see if any patterns or unusual values stand out. You should never ignore data because it is different from what you were expecting, but if a dataset does contain surprising values, it is a good idea to question them in case a mistake has been made....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Open Corporates
Society, Politics & Law

Open Corporates

...data and government data relating to companies and exists to make this information more accessible, more discoverable, and more usable, and thus give citizens, community groups, journalists, other companies, and society as a whole the ability to understand, monitor and regulate them. It was initiated by non-governmental organisation/charity and encourages people to...
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