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SMI108 Assessment 1 duration 12 minutes 1 second SMI108 Assessment 1 SMI108 Assessment 1	SMI108 Assessment 1 SMI108 Assessment 1 - guidelines smi108 +2 More From Aneta Piekut 0 likes 31 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman in conversation… duration 10 minutes 52 seconds Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman in conversation… Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman in conversation part 2	Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman in conversation part 2 Data experts Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman discuss how data is used in today's digital society. They examine the enormous potential offered by big data, explain the new technologies that enable… data +8 More From Online Learning 0 likes 13 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Small to Big Numbers: Making Sense of Data in the… duration 2 minutes 29 seconds Small to Big Numbers: Making Sense of Data in the… Small to Big Numbers: Making Sense of Data in the Media	Small to Big Numbers: Making Sense of Data in the Media Dr Mark Taylor - Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the Sheffield Methods Institute explains how to understand the use of small numbers in this excerpt from our new free, open online course… data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 26 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Big to Small Numbers: Making Sense of Data in the… duration 2 minutes 10 seconds Big to Small Numbers: Making Sense of Data in the… Big to Small Numbers: Making Sense of Data in the Media	Big to Small Numbers: Making Sense of Data in the Media Dr Mark Taylor - Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the Sheffield Methods Institute explains how to break down bigger numbers in this excerpt from our new free, open online course 'Making Sense… data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 36 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman in conversation… duration 4 minutes 26 seconds Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman in conversation… Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman in conversation part 1	Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman in conversation part 1 Data experts Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman discuss how data is used in today's digital society. They examine the enormous potential offered by big data, explain the new technologies that enable… data +8 More From Online Learning 0 likes 16 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Interview with Joe Twyman from YouGov duration 7 minutes 30 seconds Interview with Joe Twyman from YouGov Interview with Joe Twyman from YouGov	Interview with Joe Twyman from YouGov In this video, we hear from Joe Twyman, the Head of Political and Social Research for Europe, Middle East and Africa at YouGov (an internet-based market research company) about his experience of… data +5 More From Online Learning 0 likes 181 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Drawing a Sample duration 7 minutes 29 seconds Drawing a Sample Drawing a Sample	Drawing a Sample A sample is a subset of a population. It lies at the heart of survey research. It is sometimes called a ‘miniature of the population’, so the process of drawing a sample should maximise… data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 16 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Correlation Does Not Imply Causation duration 3 minutes 35 seconds Correlation Does Not Imply Causation Correlation Does Not Imply Causation	Correlation Does Not Imply Causation This is a phrase used in statistics to emphasise that a correlation between two variables does not imply that one causes the other. Just because two trends seem to fluctuate in tandem, that… data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 52 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Reviewing the Methodology duration 3 minutes 35 seconds Reviewing the Methodology Reviewing the Methodology	Reviewing the Methodology Most reputable organisations will provide some level of information about the data they publish so that we can see how it was collected, who procured it, and for what purpose. Without this basic… data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 23 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
The Importance of Measurement duration 2 minutes 52 seconds The Importance of Measurement The Importance of Measurement	The Importance of Measurement Measurement is how we quantify objects and events so that we can make comparisons among them. Being aware of the measures used in a dataset will help you determine the quality of the evidence. data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 18 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
When Research Questions Go Bad duration 4 minutes 30 seconds When Research Questions Go Bad When Research Questions Go Bad	When Research Questions Go Bad What happens when a research question isn’t framed properly? You can end up with misleading conclusions. In this video, educator Andy Bell considers a recent news story and the research… data +6 More From Online Learning 0 likes 23 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Taking a View From the Outside duration 5 minutes 52 seconds Taking a View From the Outside Taking a View From the Outside	Taking a View From the Outside We’ve started to get a sense of some of the different ways that the media uses data to make you think numbers are big or small, but sometimes, to understand the size of a number, we need to… data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 19 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Reporting Change and Risk duration 4 minutes 32 seconds Reporting Change and Risk Reporting Change and Risk	Reporting Change and Risk Another way that the media uses data is to report change and risk - how much has something increased or decreased? If you start a particular behaviour, how much does that increase your risk of a… data +3 More From Online Learning 0 likes 18 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
What is a Big Number? duration 6 minutes 36 seconds What is a Big Number? What is a Big Number?	What is a Big Number? It may sound like a silly question, but if we want to make sense of data in the media, then whenever we hear numbers quoted, one of the first things we should be asking is - is that a big number? If… data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 46 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
How Much Of What? duration 4 minutes 5 seconds How Much Of What? How Much Of What?	How Much Of What? Does 0.1% sound like a big number? Stripped of important context, it’s almost impossible to tell. Context is crucial in understanding whether numbers are big or not, particularly when it comes… data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 21 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education
Making Sense of Data in the Media (trailer) duration 2 minutes 25 seconds Making Sense of Data in the Media (trailer) Making Sense of Data in the Media (trailer)	Making Sense of Data in the Media (trailer) Learn how to make sense of social statistics and economic data with this introductory course on quantitative social science. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/media-data Increasingly, we’re… data +4 More From Online Learning 0 likes 58 plays 0 Optional Metadata - Schools School of Education