Voyage of the Data Treader
  • Introduction
  • Voyage of the Data Treader
    • Introduction
    • The Day
    • Background
    • Public Library Data
  • Introduction
  • Group Exercise. Jargon Busting
  • Teaching. Foundations
  • Human data
  • Exercise. Human data worksheet 1
  • Exercise. Human data worksheet 2
  • Exercise. Working with data
  • Answers
  • Introduction and Workshop materials
  • Session list
  • Open data advocacy
  • Core dataset and data schema
  • Publish your first dataset
  • Responses from feedback form
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  • Requirements
  • Objectives
  • Task
  • Part A: 15 minutes
  • B: Feedback 10 mins
  • Key points
  • Source Material

Group Exercise. Jargon Busting

Requirements

  • Flipchart paper

  • Pens

  • Sticky notes

  • Internet (optional)

Objectives

  • Icebreaker

  • Finding confidence level

  • Explain terms, phrases, and concepts associated with data

  • Compare knowledge of these terms, phrases, and concepts

  • Differentiate between these terms, phrases, and concepts

Task

We will be separating into groups of 5-6 per table.

Part A: 15 minutes

Taking the following set of terms and work together to explain what each one means. Try to only spend 1 minute on each and don't worry about covering them all. Make a note of those your group resolves and those you are still struggling with.

Use flipchart paper to write down each term, with thoughts on the definition around each one.

Terms

Terms

Terms

Dataset

Pivot table

Data science

Formula

Average

Algorithm

Big data

Regular expression

Data protection

Open data

Aggregation

Anonymisation

B: Feedback 10 mins

Report back on a single term discussed by your group.

Key points

  • It helps to share what you know and don’t know about data, and data science jargon.

Source Material

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