Sourcing and sorting your data

Dear ESS 132 students

Today you will continue to source, sort and categorize your data for your projects.

Sourcing and downloading your data

1. You can download data for your project subject area from the following link.

BCB downloads server - World Mapper datar

OR

the World mapper website

2. Download and save ten data sets related to your sector category (all the data is for all the regions of the world).
3. Which data sets you choose is up to you but they be relate to the sector category you chose.

Sorting your data  

1. Cut and paste the columns you need into a single unified spreadsheet. 

2. Keep the original ten data sets for reference.

3. Remove duplicate columns

4. Rename the column headings

5. Keep the data for all regions (rows) at this stage

I will demonstrate what you should do in clas today

Categorizing your data

Depending on the questions you have asked you are going to add categories to your data. I will explain this in class and those of you that are finished sorting their data can start categorizing it. 

Cheers

Martin

Check your project subject area!

Dear ESS 132 student

Please download the spreadsheet below and check that you and your partner are correctly listed for the project you chose i.e. a region and a sector category combination.

Your firstname, Surname and student numbers should appear at the correct intersection of  region (the rows) and sector categories (the columns).

Regions: Africa, Europe, Americas, Pacific (Oceania), Asia
Sector categories: Health, Environment, Industry, Politics, Law, Economy, Population

If you find an error please speak to me in class today

Download the class project subject area spreadsheet 

Cheers
Martin

Blog for ESS 132 up and running!

Dear ESS 132 Students

You will be able to find every thing you need for the course on this blog!

As the course continues I will place notices and instructions for thursday afternoon sessions on this blog

Good luck with your projects!

Cheers
Martin