Data Literacy: A User′s Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781483333465)

A practical, skill-based introduction to data analysis and literacy

We are swimming in a world of data, and this handy guide will keep you afloat while you learn to make sense of it all. In Data Literacy: A User′s Guide, David Herzog, a journalist with a decade of experience using data analysis to transform information into captivating storytelling, introduces students and professionals to the fundamentals of data literacy, a key skill in today's world. Assuming the reader has no advanced knowledge of data analysis or statistics, this book shows how to create insight from publicly-available data through exercises using simple Excel functions. Extensively illustrated, step-by-step instructions within a concise, yet comprehensive, reference will help readers identify, obtain, evaluate, clean, analyze and visualize data. A concluding chapter introduces more sophisticated data analysis methods and tools including database managers such as Microsoft Access and MySQL and standalone statistical programs such as SPSS, SAS and R.

Author: David L. Herzog
ISBN-10: 1483333469
ISBN-13: 9781483333465
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2015
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.72h x 7.09w x 0.30d