Data Management and Visualization

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Data Management and Visualization

This course is part of Data Analysis and Interpretation Specialization

Instructor: Lisa Dierker

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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Whether being used to customize advertising to millions of website visitors or streamline inventory ordering at a small restaurant, data is becoming more integral to success. Too often, we’re not sure how use data to find answers to the questions that will make us more successful in what we do. In this course, you will discover what data is and think about what questions you have that can be answered by the data – even if you’ve never thought about data before. Based on existing data, you will learn to develop a research question, describe the variables and their relationships, calculate basic statistics, and present your results clearly. By the end of the course, you will be able to use powerful data analysis tools – either SAS or Python – to manage and visualize your data, including how to deal with missing data, variable groups, and graphs. Throughout the course, you will share your progress with others to gain valuable feedback, while also learning how your peers use data to answer their own questions.

We would like to welcome you to Wesleyan University's Data Analysis and Interpretation Specialization. In this session, we will discuss the basics of data analysis. Your task will be to select a data set that you would like to work with and to review available code books that help you develop your own research question. You will also set up a Tumblr blog that will allow you to reflect on these experiences, submit assignments and share your work with others throughout the course. First, you may want to check out the welcome video

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5 videos5 readings1 peer review

5 videos Total 31 minutes

Welcome Video 6 minutes
Video Lesson - Steps in data analysis 7 minutes
Video Lesson - What do we mean by data? 5 minutes
Video Lesson - Datasets and codebooks 7 minutes
Video Lesson - Developing a research question 6 minutes

5 readings Total 50 minutes

Course codebooks 10 minutes
Course Data Sets 10 minutes
Getting Set Up for the Assignments 10 minutes
Tumblr Instructions 10 minutes
Troubleshooting Your Tumblr Assignment Blog Link 10 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Getting Your Research Project Started 60 minutes

In this session, we will discuss how to write a basic program that allows you to load a data set and examine frequency distributions. Your task will be to write a program that helps you to explore the variables you have selected for your own research question. You may choose either Python or SAS. Both are made freely available, and we have created a helpful guide to support you in making the decision. Once you have selected your platform, just follow the instructions in the appropriate "GETTING STARTED...." file, and then check out this week's video lessons aimed at helping you write and run your first program. You need only view the lessons for one of the statistical platforms (SAS or Python).

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8 videos8 readings1 peer review

8 videos Total 58 minutes

SAS Lesson 1 - Defining exploratory data analysis 3 minutes
SAS Lesson 2 - SAS coding conventions 9 minutes
SAS Lesson 3 - Running your program and examining frequency distribution 10 minutes
SAS Lesson 4 - Refining your research question by selecting rows 6 minutes
Python Lesson 1 - Defining Exploratory Data Analysis 3 minutes
Python Lesson 2 - Python Coding Conventions 10 minutes
Python Lesson 3 - Running your program and examining frequency distributions 10 minutes
Python Lesson 4 - Refining your research question by selecting rows 7 minutes

8 readings Total 80 minutes

Choosing SAS or Python 10 minutes
Getting Started with SAS 10 minutes
Getting Started with Python 10 minutes
Codebook for Video Examples 10 minutes
SAS Program for Video Examples 10 minutes
Python Program for Video Examples 10 minutes
Uploading Your Own Data to SAS 10 minutes
Assignment Sample 10 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Running Your First Program 60 minutes

In this session, we will help you to make and implement even more decisions with data. Statisticians often call this task 'data management', while computer scientists like the term 'data munging'. Whatever you call it, it is a vital and ongoing process when working with data. Your task will be to write a program that manages the variables you have selected for your own research question.

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8 videos4 readings1 peer review

8 videos Total 45 minutes

SAS Lesson 1 - Setting aside missing data 6 minutes
SAS Lesson 2 - Coding in valid data and recoding values 3 minutes
SAS Lesson 3 - Creating secondary variables 7 minutes
SAS Lesson 4 - Grouping variables within individual variables 3 minutes
Python Lesson 1 - Setting aside missing data 8 minutes
Python Lesson 2 - Coding valid data and recoding values 6 minutes
Python Lesson 3 - Creating secondary variables 8 minutes
Python Lesson 4 - Grouping values within individual variables 4 minutes

4 readings Total 40 minutes

SAS Program for Video Examples 10 minutes
Python Program for Video Examples 10 minutes
Codebook for Video Examples 10 minutes
Assignment Sample 10 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Making Data Management Decisions 60 minutes

In this session we will discuss descriptive statistics and get you visualizing your newly data managed variables individually and as graphs showing the relationships between them.

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12 videos5 readings1 peer review

12 videos Total 108 minutes

SAS Lesson 1 - Graphing individual variables 6 minutes
SAS Lesson 2 - Describing distributions visually 7 minutes
SAS Lesson 3 - Measures of center and spread 12 minutes
SAS Lesson 4 - Designing the role each of your variables will play 5 minutes
SAS Lesson 5 - Graphing decisions: categorical response variables 13 minutes
SAS Lesson 6 - Graphing decisions: quantitative response variable 10 minutes
Python Lesson 1 - Graphing individual variables 7 minutes
Python Lesson 2 - Describing distributions visually 7 minutes
Python Lesson 3 - Measures of Center and Spread 12 minutes
Python Lesson 4 - Designing the role each of your variables will play 5 minutes
Python Lesson 5 - Graphing Decisions: Categorical response variables 14 minutes
Python Lesson 6 - Graphing decisions: quantitative response variable 11 minutes

5 readings Total 50 minutes

Graphing Decisions Flowchart 10 minutes
SAS Programs for Video Examples 10 minutes
Python Programs for Video Examples 10 minutes
Codebooks for Video Examples 10 minutes
Assignment Sample 10 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Creating graphs for your data 60 minutes

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Reviewed on Jun 1, 2020

I learnt a lot from this course in data management and visualization and enjoyed the assignment parts of the course. I also gained insights in making data management decisions!

Reviewed on Jun 10, 2017

This course covers the basic data management and visualization using SAS and Python. I like the simplicity and straightforwardness of the contents. Will continue to explore this specialization.

Reviewed on Oct 1, 2020

It was wonderful experience to go through the course. Specially instructors explained all the concepts in very simple way. Looking forward to attend more courses.

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