Week 11: Managing Data

Hi Keith and SPC13,

This weeks musings are on Managing Data and the lecture that Keith presented on 19/4/13.

Keith addressed the notion that with the rise of the digital age, the availability of data is ever easier and the amount of data is ever-growing, this blog entry at Pingdom sums it up best
Internet in Numbers 2012

The data that is available is either primary (your data), secondary (someone else's, it could be wrong but it will be consistently wrong) or it may fall under the banner of meta analysis, which ends up further and further away from the original data and is used in different kinds of research.

Keith readdressed the subject of fonts in presentations (I confess that I used Baskerville on a recent assessment in order to make it more appealing to read), anyhow the presentation of data may determine how it is perceived.

I enjoyed the links that Keith put on moodle, particularly the one on the RFU/IBM partnership, and how it sought to engage the public in each game and what they should look for and expect from each game.

As a result of this lecture and pretty much this entire subject I am consciously aware of how tech savvy I am not and how far behind Keith I am technologically.  

Up next, another look at mentoring...