2T Data Analysis for Beginners
Thomas Plümper , University of Essex
23 July - 3 August (two week course / 35 hrs)
Detailed Course Outline [PDF]
Course Content
Data Analysis for Beginners is a course especially designed for undergraduate
students that want to learn the basic of data analysis without having previously
attended an introductory level module on quantitative data analysis at their
home university. The course proceeds in four steps:
What does quantitative data
analysis aim at?
What is data and how can we summarize many data points with few
numbers?
What does it mean to “analyze” data?
What techniques for analyzing data
do exist and how do they work?
The course will provide participants with an
intuitive understanding of the logic of data analysis, it helps participants to
understand data analyses published in scholarly work, it will provide
participants with the necessary skills to conduct their own data analyses, and
it will allow students to communicate their results in a scientific way.
In 2012
this course is exclusively open for British Academy scholarship holders. Note
however, that scholarship holder are not restricted to this course