P2PU | Novice #1 Finding the Data

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This challenge will introduce you to how to find open data on the web

Recently public institutions have begun to open up their data to everyone. This set of challenges will teach you basic skills in dealing with open data. It is intended for beginners with no or little skills in handling data.

In this challenge you will learn to search and retrieve data to answer a question.

P Time it should take to complete:
1 hrs

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Tasks Discussions

1. A good question is a good start View and Discuss Having a question in mind helps to find the data to answer it
2. Let's hunt for data View and Discuss This task will teach you how to find data and list possible sources
3. Get the data! View and Discuss In this task we will retrieve the data neccessary for answering our question
4. Reflect View and Discuss In this task we will look back at the subjects in this challenge

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