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This module develops core skills in data science, modelling, and essential programming skills. The ability to extract information from data as a basis for evidence-based decision making and policy is becoming increasingly important across a wide variety of sectors in the world of big data, including climate, health, technology, and the environment. This module will equip you with the tools required to collate, import and manipulate data, together with methods for inference. You will be introduced to different types and sources of data and the tools for performing data analysis, from producing informative graphical summaries to generating sophisticated visualisations. These techniques are crucial both as the basis for communication and for informing complex modelling. This will be placed in a contemporary and cutting edge setting through the use of locally curated and global open source datasets, and will draw on the flexible and freely available programming environments of Python and R.

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