How to Process, Analyze and Visualize Data

Diagram of the steps from raw data to a data product, with two examples of exploratory data analysis.

Two examples of exploratory data analysis: campaign contributions and county health rankings. (Image by the course instructors.)

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This course is an introduction to data cleaning, analysis and visualization. We will teach the basics of data analysis through concrete examples. You will learn how to take raw data, extract meaningful information, use statistical tools, and make visualizations.

This was offered as a non-credit course during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

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Adam Marcus, and Eugene Wu. RES.6-009 How to Process, Analyze and Visualize Data. January IAP 2012. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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