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Exploring data: Graphs and numerical summaries
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring data: Graphs and numerical summaries

...data: graphs and numerical summaries, will introduce you to a number of ways of representing data graphically and of summarising data numerically. You will learn the uses for pie charts, bar charts, histograms and scatterplots. You will also be introduced to various ways of summarising data and methods for assessing location and dispersion...This free course, Exploring...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Small Data: Summer petrol prices
Money & Business

Small Data: Summer petrol prices

...Data presents a sampling of the average cost of a litre of unleaded petrol in the UK, drawn from the Department of Energy And Climate Change's weekly petrol price dataset. The price per litre is drawn from the survey on August 1st, or the one immediately prior to August 1st, for each year. Year Price pence per litre Fuel duty pence per litre VAT rate % VAT pence per litre...
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Article 5 mins
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...analysis of music 1: the foreground, introduces 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained through the analysis of piano sonatas by Mozart. The course is the first in the AA314 series of three courses on this form of harmonic analysis, and concentrates on...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...analysis of music 3: the background, you will use Beethoven's Eighth Symphony to consider the largest-scale stage of voice-leading analysis...The music of Mozart has been used to examine the foreground and middleground of harmony in free courses AA314_1 and AA314_2. In this free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background, you will use Beethoven's Eighth...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...analysis of music 2: the middleground, continues our examination of 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained through the analysis of piano sonatas by Mozart. The course is the second in the AA314 series of three courses on this form of harmonic analysis,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...analysis. The tool, Mbeva tells SciDev.Net, is detailed, especially as regards data and information beyond mitigation such as climate change adaptation, finance, and technology needs and transfer. Transcript “These issues are of critical importance to African countries, which face the twin challenges of development and climate change,” explains Mbeya. “The NDC...
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How data is making our cities smarter
Society, Politics & Law

How data is making our cities smarter

...research may lead to more efficient, sustainable and democratic societies says Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford...Recorded at The Open University for BBC Radio 4's sociological discussion programme, Thinking Allowed. Transcript Data is a significant part of technological life and has made the news recently due to breaches, misuse and...
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Video 5 mins
Hans Rosling: Presenting data on carbon emissions
Science, Maths & Technology

Hans Rosling: Presenting data on carbon emissions

Think China is the biggest gas guzzler? Hans Rosling exposes this myth by showing carbon emissions per capita...Transcript Watch more videos in this series All videos shown were produced by Wingspan Productions Explore more on data representation and statistics
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Video 10 mins