SHORT COURSES: Introduction to Data Analysis 1
| Dates: | 15 May 2019 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Course |
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| Organiser: | Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research |
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| How much: | £195
/ £140 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Jennifer Buckley |
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This course provides an introduction to the theory and methods of quantitative data analysis, focusing on the social survey. It has an emphasis on hands-on learning, with a series of practical sessions using the statistical software package SPSS to explore data from the British Social Attitudes survey.
The course will:
introduce participants to survey data as a key quantitative resource for social science research;
introduce the structure and properties of survey data and consider the process by which variables in a dataset are derived;
explain the distinction between interval and discrete variables;
consider strategies for exploratory data analysis including methods for describing and summarising variable distributions;
provide participants with a conceptual understanding of the stages involved in exploring the relationship between variables;
provide essential skills of data manipulation including selecting sub-sets and recoding;
introduce the visual representation of variables in scatter graphs, bar charts and histograms.
Price: £195
Concessions: £140 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions
Speaker
Jennifer Buckley
Organisation: University of Manchester
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Basement Lab
Humanities Bridgeford Street
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