Data Analysis for Beginners: Data Wrangling
19 November @ 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Learn about data analysis, common tools and platform for working with data and methods for obtaining data.
- Learn to clean, reshape and prepare data for use.
- Compare common tools and platforms for working with data.
- Explore datasets using summary statistics and simple plots.
Designed to support learners who are either new to data analysis, or would like to revisit core principles, this one-day Data Analysis for Beginners: Data Wrangling course combines presentation of real-life examples, discussion activities, and hands on exercises, to help participants manage, prepare, analyse and present data for more effective analysis.
You’ll explore the definitions and terminology surrounding data analysis and how to work with different data formats, as well as discover common errors when managing data and how to avoid them.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Describe the difference between data and information
- Access data using a range of different methods and formats
- Describe common data quality errors, how they arise, and how they can impact analysis
- Explore a dataset using summary statistics and simple plots
- Clean a dataset using one or more tools
- Analyse a dataset and present a conclusion.
