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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...analysis are framed often affects the final decision. The same data can lead to very different conclusions if decision makers have different assumptions about the way the world works...Making decisions: 7.3 What is an effective decision? - To improve decision making it is first important to have a clear idea of how we should judge an effective decision. While in this...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict
Nature & Environment

The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict

...data on the environment, not only after the conflict but also during it, making decision makers more capable of and competent to take appropriate actions," one of the report’s authors, Wim Zwijnenburg, tells SciDev.Net. ISIS militants set fire to oil wells in the summer of 2016, as they retreated from parts of Iraq. The toxic substances that oil fires release into the...
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Article 5 mins
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...analysis of a single learning activity to a wider view of you as a learner. Two main things will probably affect your approach to learning: your motivation (the reasons why you are engaged in a particular course of study) your previous history as a learner, both in a formal setting (such as at school or on another course) and informally, through unstructured or unexpected...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...data? Some calculators ask users for ‘real data’ such as annual gas and electricity use, car mileage, flight distances, etc. However, many users have found these difficult to access, and they only account for ‘direct emissions’, around 20% of the total consumption-based footprint. This calculator uses national statistics for the most typical cases, then refines...
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Article 5 mins
Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...Data will be owned by the individual who creates it. There will be a property right within data allowing individuals to trade, share and volunteer their data for personal gain – such as providing data to receive targeted advertising and product discounts or, in aggregate, providing demographic information to assist in policy development. Digital everpresence will...
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Article 5 mins
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...analysis, knowledge representation and computer vision. This served to strengthen the backbone of AI theories. In the 1980s, AI began to move at a faster pace. The public became more comfortable with science and technology as the popularity of personal computers rose and sales of A.I. related hardware rose. AI was put to the test for military use in the Gulf War in the...
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Article 15 mins
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...analysis. Our data source decides whether it's reliable data. We don't. Otherwise, that would introduce bias. What about other countries? There are 200 studies of health in relation to income inequality in the academic peer-reviewed journals - this isn't confined to these countries here - providing a very simple demonstration of the same countries, the same measure of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...data as part of fundraising bits. They might be doing needs analysis, or they might be trying to think about who else is operating in an area. And our data will help them understand how many other organisations are doing that. I’d really like people to be able to use our data to understand their organisation by benchmarking themselves against it. And we are trying to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs