Thursday, 29 August 2013

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.


OR


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


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