Data Journalism - Data Mashing and Summarisation
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What we learned last week: Start working with Excel
Sort and Filter
Simple math func;ons: Sum Measures of centrality
Rate
Percentage change
Last week’s Hands-‐on/Exercise: 1-‐ Percentage change of theF crime between 2014 Q1 and 2015 Q1 for all Garda division in Ireland. 2-‐ Rate of theF crimes in all coun;es in Ireland (with respect to the listed Garda divisions). Tip: For Crime rate look for popula2on sta2s2cs in CSO, try to merge the two tables, and not to copy and paste each figure manually.
Garda Division popula;on stats.
hTp://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011smallareapopula;onsta;s;cssaps/
Pivot Tables To summarise and cross tabulate the data. Open crime sta;s;cs in Ireland from Blackboard: (1) Crime by Garda Division, Region and
type of offence (2) Garda Division popula;on
Pivot Tables Open Datamania dataset*. See what stories you can find in “PRISON” sheet.
*Credit to Steve Doig for the Datamanian dataset.