Data Literacy - Couverture souple

Herzog, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1483333469 ISBN 13 : 9781483333465

Editeur : SAGE Publications, Inc, 2015

Synopsis

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. 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Herzog is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he also serves as the academic adviser to the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. He was a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, where he launched OpenMissouri.org, a directory of data held offline by state agencies. Before arriving at the School of Journalism in 2002, he worked as a newspaper reporter at The Providence Journal, The Baltimore Sun and The Morning Call in Allentown, PA. He is a native of Bethlehem, PA.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1483333469
• ISBN 13: 9781483333465
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 205
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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