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University of Maryland, College Park

Framework for Data Collection and Analysis

This course will provide you with an overview over existing data products and a good understanding of the data collection landscape. With the help of various examples you will learn how to identify which data sources likely matches your research question, how to turn your research question into measurable pieces, and how to think about an analysis plan. Furthermore this course will provide you with a general framework that allows you to not only understand each step required for a successful data collection and analysis, but also help you to identify errors associated with different data sources. You will learn some metrics to quantify each potential error, and thus you will have tools at hand to describe the quality of a data source. Finally we will introduce different large scale data collection efforts done by private industry and government agencies, and review the learned concepts through these examples. This course is suitable for beginners as well as those that know about one particular data source, but not others, and are looking for a general framework to evaluate data products.

Status: Survey Creation
Status: Data Quality
IntermediateCourse10 hours

Featured reviews

CK

4.0Reviewed Jun 7, 2016

The deliver papers are great but slides are poor. In overall, a good course to begin learning about Data Collection and Analysis.

TJ

5.0Reviewed Oct 30, 2020

Useful to build basic knowledge which helps you choosing a better mode and linking the objectives of research with the tools (how).Thanks to the instructor and Coursera.

MM

5.0Reviewed Mar 6, 2018

Very clear and organised structureClear examples to support learning objectivesAttractive use of voice One point for improvement: Do not film while the lecturer is still refinding breath

MI

4.0Reviewed Dec 30, 2021

The way the instructor was teaching was not very exciting, but the course was a good start as it had general information about data analysis.

TM

5.0Reviewed Jan 5, 2020

Frauke is experienced, highly knowledgeable and forward thinking in the theory and practice of survey methods.

AF

5.0Reviewed Dec 14, 2017

Interesting and very useful for work. I liked it better than a course #5-6. It's not so long, but has many practical insights

MC

5.0Reviewed Sep 2, 2018

This course give sufficient background information to start working on other courses and text about surveys.

AI

5.0Reviewed Aug 6, 2016

This is an excellent introductory course. It provides the learners with all the basic information required to understand surveys.

EH

5.0Reviewed Apr 14, 2018

very enjoyable. Excellent scene-setter for more in depth treatments of other aspects of survey-led quant research.

MH

4.0Reviewed Feb 21, 2021

Lot of definitions, so some of the questions (especially week 4) test reading comprehension more than understanding - but hopefully this will improve in the subsequent courses of the specialization.

IL

4.0Reviewed Jun 19, 2018

I though it was a good background course, however, I wish initially (in week 1) there was more focus on definitions.

SC

5.0Reviewed May 18, 2019

Excelente curso, genera las herramientas necesarias para la recoleccion, transformacion, analisis e interpretacion de datos que requiero como principiante en este proceso