Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Critical Evaluation in Data Science: Data, the World, and You
The University of Adelaide
This online course explored crucial skills and techniques to understand and evaluate data we are presented with in everyday life.
6 weeks, 5 hours per week
Jennie Shaw
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic)
The University of Adelaide
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain how data is created and collected in surveys.
- Explain common ways errors can be introduced into surveys and data collection practices.
- Identify some common ways statistics can be used to mislead people.
- Describe some common problems that can arise in research studies that impact research accuracy.
Syllabus
Misleading statistics
- Misleading statistics
- How to fool the world with percentages
- Fermi estimation
- Statistics in the media
Sampling and variability
- Hempel’s Paradox
- Sampling
- Variability
- Sample size and variability
Study design
- Generalisability
- Types of studies
Survey and bias
- Surveys and bias
- Leading questions
- Bias and precisions
Analysing surveys
- What type of data is it?
- Rules for surveys
- Right censoring
Sampling gone wrong
- Missing data
- The Tinder example
- Experiment design
- Over-extrapolation
- Filter bubbles
- Wald’s planes
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Issued on 14th May 2024
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