Data Literacy: A User's GuideA practical, skill-based introduction to data analysis and literacy We are swimming in a world of data, and this handy guide will keep you afloat while you learn to make sense of it all. In Data Literacy: A User's Guide, David Herzog, a journalist with a decade of experience using data analysis to transform information into captivating storytelling, introduces students and professionals to the fundamentals of data literacy, a key skill in today’s world. Assuming the reader has no advanced knowledge of data analysis or statistics, this book 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. |
Contents
Chapter 2 CLUES FOR UNCOVERING DATA | |
Chapter 3 ONLINE DATABASES | |
Chapter 4 IDENTIFYING AND REQUESTING OFFLINE DATA | |
Chapter 5 DATA DIRT IS EVERYWHERE | |
Chapter 6 DATA INTEGRITY CHECKS | |
Chapter 7 GETTING YOUR DATA IN SHAPE | |
Chapter 8 NUMBER SUMMARIES AND COMPARISONS | |
Chapter 10 SPREADSHEETS AS DATABASE MANAGERS | |
Chapter 11 VISUALIZING YOUR DATA | |
Chapter 13 CHARTING IN EXCEL | |
Chapter 14 CHARTING WITH WEB TOOLS | |
Chapter 15 TAKING ANALYSIS TO THE NEXT LEVEL | |
AppendixData toolkit | |
References | |
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