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Am I Normal? - an inaugural lecture by Professor Blaine Price
Miscellaneous

Am I Normal? - an inaugural lecture by Professor Blaine Price

...data about you and your lifestyle. Date: Tuesday 28 November Time: 6:00pm–7:00pm Venue: The Open University, the Berrill Theatre Blaine Price is Professor of Computing in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at The Open University (OU). His research interests focus on improving people’s engagement with data gathered from mobile, wearable and...
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Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain
Digital & Computing

Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain

...data science and has thus enrolled on a number of courses offered online, including MOOCs and OERs. Each time the learner completes a course, she is awarded a Smart Badge by the educational institution that offers the course. This Smart Badge includes data about the skills that the learner has acquired upon completion of the course. Each Smart Badge the learner earns is...
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Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...data that might be behind what the analysis is that you're reading online? It's always a good idea if you are not sure if they're a trusted source of information to check their About Us page on their website, to look at perhaps who funds the organisation, because that will give you an idea of whether they are independent and impartial for example, which might be a...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
Money & Business

How have family budgets changed in sixty years?

...data about household outgoings for six decades. It tracks social and structural changes over those times, says the ONS' Joanna Bulman...[Shoppers queue in 1950s Bristol] Shoppers wait patiently in Bristol, during the 1950s. This year’s Family Spending report, which covers the financial year ending March 2017, marks the sixtieth year of results from a household...
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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...analysis. All this work was replicated using data from the tests. The results of this review and comparison show that, apart from the unexpected movement, the bridge is reacting as predicted. There are some marginal – and explicable – differences in the figures but none represents a significant departure from the model, and none could explain the unexpected movement....
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam
Digital & Computing

Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam

...data until they pay a ransom, usually in a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, to receive the keys needed to unlock their data. SamSam is far from the first piece of ransomware, you may remember the WannaCry attack that badly affected the NHS during July 2018, but it is another example of just how vulnerable our networked world is to security threats. SamSam demanded a ransom...
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Sut gall corfforaethau leihau olion troed carbon digidol?
Nature & Environment

Sut gall corfforaethau leihau olion troed carbon digidol?

...data a gwybodaeth – nid yw'r data yn ddigon cadarn neu nid oes digon o ddata ar gael eto. Mae hynny'n golygu na fydd unrhyw linell sylfaen o'r sefyllfa ar y pryd ddim ond cystal â'r wybodaeth sydd ar gael ar y pryd. Mae'r data hyn yn gwella'n gyflym, sy'n golygu y bydd oes silff y llinell sylfaen yn naturiol yn fyr ac y bydd angen ei diweddaru'n barhaus Wrth ddatblygu...
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Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...analysis of scientific data – descriptive statistics The data in Figure 9 are shown as the mean change in the concentration of cortisol in the blood, plus the SEM (standard error of the mean, which is generally written as +/− SEM) You will probably be familiar with the term ‘mean’ which is calculated by adding up all of the data from a group of participants and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs