Undergraduate USA-INFT2067-2023

Data Acquisition and Wrangling

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Duration

10 weeks

Study method

100% Online

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Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Start dates

26 Jun 2023

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Subject details

What you'll learn

By the end of this 10-week course, you’ll be able to:

Assemble requirements and implement processes for data structuring, cleaning, and enrichment via utilising multiple tools.
Identify the alignment required between data collection and analysis.
Design sustainable data management processes that support the analysis and report phases.
Create effective documentation reflecting the structure of data sets prepared for further analysis.
Compare the privacy and ethical implications of sourcing internal and external data.
Perform self-service data preparation.

Topics covered

- You’ll study the following topics:
- Data and the enterprise
- Introduction to data wrangling
- Data acquisition
- Data profiling
- Data transformations: structuring
- Cleaning and enriching data
- Data visualization

Entry requirements

No eligibility requirements

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Description

In this course you’ll design ingestion mechanisms, which takes data from existing databases and prepares it for further analysis and machine learning. You'll also learn about data-driven decision making and data quality. Develop your skills in data acquisition with Python and get into data wrangling tasks including data profiling, cleaning, transformation, and enrichment. Build detailed visualisations that help others to interpret what the data is saying. Explore industry use cases in Python, Tableau, and other data analysis software.

UniSA Online’s 10-week short courses give you the flexibility to upskill in a certain area, stay current with developments in your field, diversify your knowledge, or even explore a new direction in your career – without having to commit to the time and cost of a full university degree.

Delivered 100% online, you’ll be able to study where and when it suits you. Access online academic and student support seven days a week, fit study around work and life commitments, view learning resources 24/7, and log in to the interactive online environment anywhere, any time and on any device.

This is a second-year course from UniSA Online’s Bachelor of Data Analytics degree. Please note: you are responsible for completing any relevant prerequisite courses before enrolling in this course.

Assessments

Continuous assessment (40%)
Project (60%)

Textbooks

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