Key Data Skills for Everyone
Who is this course for?
This course is for people who work in the organisation but not in specific data roles. It introduces key concepts around data collection, data analysis and data storytelling in an accessible and enjoyable way.
What will I learn?
Over the course participants will explore, understand and be confident discussing:
Data collection and categorization and how power dynamics and societal framing affect these.
Data exploration. Examining datasets to see what questions arise from the data and how these can be answered from further datasets.
Data storytelling. How to critically evaluate a data visualization and understand what it is seeking to communicate. Different ways in which data stories can be told and the stregnths and weaknesses of different approaches.
Text analysis. Different ways in which text files can be analysed and the consequences of picking different approaches. The implications of text analysis on aspects of AI.
Social network analysis. Different ways in which social networks can be analysed and the implications of this analysis to how social networking platforms function.
Skills tags:
- data
- data analysis
- visualisations