Description
| Product ID: | 9781483333465 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Data Literacy |
| Subtitle: | A User's Guide |
| Authors: | Author: David L. Herzog |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Research methods: general, Research methods: general, Data capture and analysis, Data capture & analysis |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A practical, skill-based introduction to data analysis and data literacy. Accompanied by a student study website. A 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. |
| Imprint Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Publisher Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-04-07 |
