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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...data provider a good idea? [The Met Office, Exeter] Sunny for now... The Met Office HQ in Exeter The Met Office has its origins in a service for mariners, set up in 1854 under the leadership of Robert FitzRoy, who had previously captained HMS Beagle on Darwin’s famous voyage. The organisation developed as part of the Ministry of Defence, with an important role to play...
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Exploring comets: A short introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring comets: A short introduction

...data on the interplay between the solar wind and the comet’s atmosphere. ICE subsequently joined a fleet of two Soviet, two Japanese and one European Space Agency probe that studied Halley’s comet in 1986. ESA’s mission, Giotto, was the best equipped. It got to within nearly 600km, and sent back the first close-up pictures of a comet’s nucleus. The most...
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Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...data here, or you can base your calculation on your own experience of renting or owning a home. Now compare the cost of the same sort of dinner in a city within a low-income country (for example, Awassa in Ethiopia). You may have to do some additional online research to find approximate values for the same set of ingredients as you used for your initial analysis. Don’t...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...analysis of the ‘raw’ data they have generated), and state their interpretation of the findings in the Discussion section. They will often extrapolate and generalise in this section to illustrate the key points they wish to make. The last section before the Reference list is usually a Conclusion, in which the authors state how the results, in their view, relate to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...analysis of interviews, autobiographical accounts, or documentary photographs. Qualitative researchers often focus on everyday life itself. Neither of these forms of evidence is better or more useful than the other, indeed they often complement one another, but they need to be used appropriately in terms of the question being asked and the claim being made. So let's look...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...data available that facilitates a smoothly running supply chain requires vast amounts of energy. Have a look at the numbers in the United States: US data centres consumed about 70 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2014, the most recent year examined, representing 2 percent of the country’s total energy consumption, according to the study. That’s equivalent to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...data collection, all kinds of different technologies, and what came out of that discussion was that there are sectors of the military and human health innovation, which is escalating rapidly, which are also doing the same things or have done some of them a bit quicker. And that technology is locked into silos and the long-term vision would be that there would be some way...
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Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...data to show the diversity of family life in the UK and to provide a first opportunity at ‘reading’ numbers...Understanding society: Families: 1.1 Changes in women's employment patterns - During the 1960s and 1970s there was a significant increase in the proportion of women who worked in paid employment outside the home. A pattern became established whereby married...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs