extracting meaning from large data sets to gain insights that support decision making

a variety of techniques used to illustrate a problem and/or its solution to make it easier to understand

visual representations of data, often involving pictures that reflect patterns and help tell a story

the actionable understanding gained from analysing data

Using data to support decision making

Computing

Global data

The investigative cycle

Capturing data to investigate an issue

Data cleansing

Using data to make recommendations

In this unit pupils will discover how to use data to investigate problems and make changes to the world around them. Pupils will be exposed to both global and local data sets and gain an understanding of how visualising data can help with the process of identifying patterns and trends.

Using data science

a guess on what you think the outcome may be

a factor on which you judge or decide something

a framework for us to follow when asking and answering real-world problems using data

a correlation simply measures how two things move together

a data point that significantly differs from the rest of the data in a data set

a question that is clear, specific and unambiguous

the process of detecting and correcting, or removing, corrupt or inaccurate data from a data set

a judgement or decision reached by reasoning or using data

Using data science

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