Data analysis

The course aims to provide students with the basic skills for collecting, treating and analysing information in the form of data. More in detail, students will learn how to find and download data on politics, society, economics and law using some of the most important online data hubs, how to build a dataset, and how to analyse - that is, describe, summarise and present - the information contained in a dataset using statistics.

After taking this course, students will be able to find and download data from the internet, to organise these data in the form of a dataset, and to use the software Microsoft Excel to perform descriptive statistical analysis, including the creation of tables and graphs to summarise and present the information contained in a dataset.