This course will give you practical experience in working with real-world data, with applications to important policy issues in today’s society. Each week, you will learn specific data handling skills in Excel and use these techniques to analyse climate change data, with appropriate readings to provide background information on the data you are working with. You will also learn about the consequences of climate change and how governments can address this issue. After completing this course, you should be able to: • Understand how data can be used to assess the extent of climate change • Produce appropriate bar charts, line charts, and scatterplots to visualise data • Calculate and interpret summary statistics (mean, median, variance, percentile, correlation) • Explain the challenges with designing and implementing policies that address climate change No prior knowledge in economics or statistics is required for this course. No knowledge of Excel is required, except a familiarity with the interface and how to enter and clear data.
TD
Excellent review of measuring climate change from an economics standpoint.
GN
The course provides a lot practical and scientific experiences partaining to climate change.
CG
Although it's mostly reading based, it is a very well structured and interesting course. The exercises are very useful and well explained.
FW
Found the course very interesting, and provided a good introduction into the topic. The example exercises were also thought-provoking, and provided a good balance between depth and complexity.
BB
It's really a 3.5 but I'll give you the .5I suggested some omissions and corrections - take a look and consider.
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The contents of the course are such that it helps to internalize concepts of economics relating to climate change with the application of statistical techniques on real life scenarios. Moreover, it introduces a large number of climate related online resources which provide a wealth of knowledge that could be used for later reference by the participants throughout their life.
Although it's mostly reading based, it is a very well structured and interesting course. The exercises are very useful and well explained.
Found the course very interesting, and provided a good introduction into the topic. The example exercises were also thought-provoking, and provided a good balance between depth and complexity.
Why does my certificate not even contain my Legal name, which I was forced to input, but rather "Cousera Learner" ?? Rip-off
I really liked the information and found this course very helpful in understanding the relationship between economics and climate change. It basically made me understand climate change in different aspects and then also related it with economics as well. Also the Excel parts were new to me and I felt very satisfied with myself intellectually since it made me see the points I read and learned about as graphs. The graphs and data analysing made all the information look biref but efficient. Over all really enjoyed it and as a high school student, even I could understand and process every information.
The course provides a lot practical and scientific experiences partaining to climate change.
Excellent review of measuring climate change from an economics standpoint.
I am very enthousiastic about this program.
O curso é muito bom. Super recomendo !
Best Course for Economics Students
So much informative and practical.
Great course, highly recommend.
Good Content and reference
The course is very good
it was great
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It was a very helpful course. I do think as a beginner, some concepts like the discounting was difficult to grasp when related to climate change but the readings and activities helped make everything easier to understand and learn.
It's really a 3.5 but I'll give you the .5
I suggested some omissions and corrections - take a look and consider.
it was good ...