Data literacy : a user's guide /
By: Herzog, David
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BookPublisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, c2016.Description: xiv, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781483333465Subject(s): Research -- Data processing | Data literacy | Data dirt | Data processingDDC classification: 001.4/33 | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai PHD Shelf | 001.433 HE DA (Browse shelf) | Available | T0051725 |
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| 001.4220285 BA QU Qualitative data analysis with NVIVO | 001.43 DA SA Sampling essentials : practical guidelines for making sampling choices | 001.433 AN DE Designing & doing survey research | 001.433 HE DA Data literacy : a user's guide / | 001.433 KI UN Understanding narrative inquiry : the crafting and analysis of stories as research / | 001.434 FI HO How to design and report experiments / | 001.434 FI HO How to design and report experiments / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Data defined -- Clues for uncovering data -- Online databases -- Identifying and requesting offline data -- Data dirt -- Data literacy -- Getting your data in shape -- Number summaries and comparisons -- Calculating summary statistics and number corrections -- Spreadsheets as database managers -- Visualizing your data -- Charting choices -- Charting in Excel -- Charting with Web tools -- Taking analysis to the next level.
Shows how to create insight from publicly-available data through exercises using simple Excel functions. Extensively illustrated, step-by-step instructions within a concise, yet comprehensive, reference will help readers identify, obtain, evaluate, clean, analyze and visualize data. A concluding chapter introduces more sophisticated data analysis methods and tools including database managers such as Microsoft Access and MySQL and standalone statistical programs such as SPSS, SAS and R.