Learn to Code for Data Analysis - free online course at FutureLearn.com

Sign up now at www.futurelearn.com/courses/learn-to-code 'Learn to Code for Data Analysis' is a free online course by The Open University available on FutureLearn.com

Software and data make the world go round. Learn programming, to analyse and visualise open data, with this free online course.

This hands-on course will teach you how to write your own computer programs, one line of code at a time. You’ll learn how to access open data, clean it and analyse it and to produce visualisations. You will also learn how to write up and share your analyses, privately or publicly.

You will learn to code in Python, a widely used programming language across all disciplines, due to its support for scientific and engineering libraries and visualisation tools, and wide range of development tools.

You will write up analyses and do coding exercises using the popular Jupyter Notebooks platform, which allows you to see immediately the result of running your code and helps you identify – and fix – any errors more easily.

You will look at real data from the World Health Organisation, the World Bank and other organisations. You’ll be encouraged to discuss the data and your analyses with your fellow learners, and to build a community of researchers around these and other datasets.

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