P2PU | Getting Started: Finding the Data

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Learn how to discover data to answer a question

In this module, you will learn where to start looking for data. We begin with an introduction to some of the basics of data – key terms like qualitative, quantitative, machine-readable, discrete and continuous data, which crop up again and again for Data Wranglers. We will then look at different ways of getting hold of data, before setting you loose to find data yourselves!

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1. Most things start with a question View and Discuss An Introduction to why you want to work with Data
2. What is Data? View and Discuss This task gives an introduction to Data
3. From Data to Information to Knowledge. View and Discuss Data is not Information - in this task we talk about how to translate one into the other.
4. Data Sources View and Discuss This task will give an Introduction how to obtain Data
5. Downloading Data from the Worldbank View and Discuss In this task we will obtain data from the Worldbank to answer our Question
6. Summary and Further Reading View and Discuss This tasks summarises what we learned.

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