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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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...data in our Privacy Statement. How do I create an account? To create an account, click the green 'Create account / Sign in' button found in the top right-hand corner of the OpenLearn site. If you are on a mobile device then you will need to click the profile icon in the top right-hand corner followed by 'Create account / Sign in'. Then, click the pink 'Create account'...
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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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Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...data and information about the service user to offer coordinated and ‘joined up’ care use technological tools to communicate where appropriate (e.g. email, text and videoconferencing) use data to look at outcomes and make improvements to the services where appropriate (such as learning from errors or incidents) keep up-to-date with digital and technological changes...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Europa: a collection
Science, Maths & Technology

Europa: a collection

Jupiter’s moon Europa is the target of several exploration missions that will be sending data back to Earth over the coming years. Find out more about this moon and what these missions are investigating by reading our free articles, courses and other resources.
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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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History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...data from UK RED and applying quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis to arrive at some conclusions about reading in the past. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus60...History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...data? Do you wish to communicate your research to a wide audience or a specific scientific community? Your answers to such questions will have an impact upon which perspective within the philosophy of the social sciences most closely relates to your own research strategy. This course begins to explore these diverse choices. The general purpose of this course is to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs