Introduction Making Sense of Data

 We are living in the data-driven society  Tell me your story about dealing with data to make decision

 What kind of data do you have or usually work with?  Survey  Bibliographic data  Network data  What kind of story can you try to tell with your data?

 Our world is filled with data  Making sense of data should become the common skill of data society citizen who constantly makes decision based on data  Making sense of data:  Structure  Visualize  Analyze

Google has launched its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach the general public how to understand surveys, research, and data. Called “Making Sense of Data” “Making Sense of Data” 02/26/google-announces- an-online-data- interpretation-class-for-the- general-public/

 Google is helping to solve a major gap in the current education system, while at the same time promoting one of its products. “Making Sense of Data is intended for anybody who works with data on a daily basis, such as students, teachers, journalists, and small business owners, and who wants to learn more about how to apply that information to practical problems  There are countless teachers and business people who need a quick course on basic numeracy.  Google Fusion Tables Project (

 White House: call for more data science- literate workerscall for more data science- literate workers  $37M White House Initiative to encourage data science work at American Universities  White House to universities: We need more data scientists  feed/white-house-to-universities-we-need- more-data-scientists

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