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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...analysis of data from population samples. You can now go to Week 8...Week 7: Statistics and repeated measurements: Acknowledgements - This course was written by Maria Townsend/The Open University STEM faculty. It was first published in October 2019. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...Data takes many forms – numbers, words, measurements, observations. The collection, compilation, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data is crucial to social science research and to informing development practice. Data informs us of the number of people living in a city, the level of poverty in a country or the attitudes of a community towards a proposed new...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
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Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...analysis, which will help you identify the political, economic, social and technological factors that could affect your organisation in the future. This will help you consider what opportunities might exist in your own job or elsewhere. As with Week 1, you’ll need the Toolkit or your notebook to jot down your thoughts and responses to the activities. By the end of this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

Carers, COVID-19 and Physical Activity: The Research

...data (the proposed study and the systematic reviews that are underway). To achieve these objectives each carer will take part in an initial interview to establish the context of caring and understand the carer in their role prior to the COVID lockdown. The carers will then be tasked with completing a journey map/timeline highlighting critical moments identified during the...
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Article 30 mins
Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?
Languages

Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?

...data on how people engage with Twitter, how often they check it, for how long, best times to tweet for impact and use of images and video, for example, but little research has been carried out on what people are doing while they use Twitter. Checking Twitter is something that many people do not do as an isolated activity. This is linked to the rise in 'Continuous Partial...
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Article 5 mins
What is a password manager - and should I be using one?
Digital & Computing

What is a password manager - and should I be using one?

...data will not be visible to casual inspection, but you should be extremely careful using them on any computer that you do not own or have sole control of, since your data will be stored on the machine and could be misused by another user or an administrator. You should only consider using a browser’s password storage on a machine that you are the sole user of, or one...
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Article 5 mins
Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...analysis of the ‘swing to the right’ that was taking place in British society. In this article, Hall outlined the way in which Thatcher and the radical right had put together a critique of the post-war social democratic consensus and were attempting to construct a new consensus drawn from some of the ‘common sense’ hopes and fears of ordinary people and based...
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Article 10 mins
Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...data is exchanged between the implant and its programmer are not published, and crucially, in this case, not encrypted. The researchers did not have access to the inner workings of the implant software, so they used what is known as black-box reverse-engineering to work out what was going on. In this context, the implant and its communications are the black box, and...
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Article 5 mins