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Beginners Guide to Checking, Cleaning and Tidying Data
Beginners Guide to Checking, Cleaning and Tidying Data
Beginners Guide to Checking, Cleaning and Tidying Data

About the Course

This course covers a range of skills required for survey data preparation.  It builds on introductory material covered in our "Survey Analysis Foundations" course.  By the end of his course ... 

  • you will have a structured set of steps for checking and cleaning survey data
  • be able to practice them with real data
  • and gain exposure to some methods for tidying and transforming variables

You can then build on this knowledge and skill set via The Data Story Guide and our companion course for this learning path, Advanced Data Checking, Cleaning, and Tidying.

At the end of the learning path, you can sit the exam and get certified!

Limited-time offer! Enroll now for free before we add a nominal fee.

Course Instructor

Andrew Kelly
Andrew Kelly
Director

Degree qualified in Marketing and Advertising Research (University of Technology, Sydney), Andrew has over 30 years experience as a market research professional.   He is highly regarded for his ability to find stories in data and tell them in a clear and actionable way

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Course Outline
  1. Getting Started
    1. How to approach this course
    2. What you need
    3. The Case Study
    4. Course Overview
    5. The Roadmap
  2. Setting Up Your Data
    1. Getting data in the right format
  3. Checking the Data File
    1. Overview
    2. File Checking Demonstration
    3. Exercise: Checking the case study data file
  4. Checking, Cleaning and Tidying Variables
    1. Overview
    2. Variable Cleaning and Tidying Demonstration
    3. Exercise: Practice Checking, Cleaning, and Tidying
  5. Data Quality Checks
    1. Key Data Quality Checking Steps
  6. Certification
    1. Before you start
    2. Examination
    3. Course Completion
course
Beginners Guide to Checking, Cleaning and Tidying Data
Beginners Guide to Checking, Cleaning and Tidying Data
Course Progress
Not started
Enroll

About the Course

This course covers a range of skills required for survey data preparation.  It builds on introductory material covered in our "Survey Analysis Foundations" course.  By the end of his course ... 

  • you will have a structured set of steps for checking and cleaning survey data
  • be able to practice them with real data
  • and gain exposure to some methods for tidying and transforming variables

You can then build on this knowledge and skill set via The Data Story Guide and our companion course for this learning path, Advanced Data Checking, Cleaning, and Tidying.

At the end of the learning path, you can sit the exam and get certified!

Limited-time offer! Enroll now for free before we add a nominal fee.

Course Outline
  1. Getting Started
    1. How to approach this course
    2. What you need
    3. The Case Study
    4. Course Overview
    5. The Roadmap
  2. Setting Up Your Data
    1. Getting data in the right format
  3. Checking the Data File
    1. Overview
    2. File Checking Demonstration
    3. Exercise: Checking the case study data file
  4. Checking, Cleaning and Tidying Variables
    1. Overview
    2. Variable Cleaning and Tidying Demonstration
    3. Exercise: Practice Checking, Cleaning, and Tidying
  5. Data Quality Checks
    1. Key Data Quality Checking Steps
  6. Certification
    1. Before you start
    2. Examination
    3. Course Completion

Course Instructor

Andrew Kelly
Andrew Kelly
Director

Degree qualified in Marketing and Advertising Research (University of Technology, Sydney), Andrew has over 30 years experience as a market research professional.   He is highly regarded for his ability to find stories in data and tell them in a clear and actionable way

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