Program Overview
University Programs
The university offers a wide range of programs across various study areas, including:
- Analytics & Data Science
- Critical & Creative Thinking
- Data Science
- Entrepreneurship
- Invention & Innovation
- Leadership & Management
- Problem Solving
- Strategic Thinking
- Architecture
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- Economics
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- Leadership & Management
- Marketing
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- Strategic Thinking
- Communication & Media
- Design Innovation
- Technology
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- AI & Machine Learning
- Telecoms
- Data Science
- Key Technology Trends
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- Substantive law
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- Evidence Evaluation and Insights
- Community engagement
- Governance
- Local government
- Leadership
- Policy and program delivery
- Strategic planning
- Systems & Operations
- Engineering
- Bridging Courses
- Science & Mathematics
- Education
Course Details
Journey Through Data
This is a free, self-paced online course that takes you on a journey through a data set. You will explore how to correct your hidden assumptions about a real dataset and start to think about how that data might have been collected. The course will help you understand how to engage with data systematically and strategically, and how to tell a data story.
Course Structure
- Investigate how data can help to correct your biases and preconceptions
- Examine how the process of collecting data might affect the story it tells
- Learn some questions you could ask of a dataset to unpack its story
- Think about how people can abuse data to tell a biased story about the world
Learning Outcomes
- Ask the right questions about data and find out what stories you can tell
- Engage with data systematically and strategically and learn how to tell a data story
- Understand how to explore data and tell your own story for maximum impact
Target Audience
This course is well suited to professionals wanting to learn about how to use data strategically to tell compelling stories.
Other Courses
The university also offers other free courses, including:
- Living Well with Palliative Care
- Safeguarding in Sport: Understanding the Risks
- Modern Slavery in the Home
- Human Rights and Emerging Technologies: Research and Capacity Building
- Human Rights and Emerging Technologies: an Interdisciplinary Approach
- Machine Learning in Train Network Operations
- Modern Slavery
- Outcomes Based Funding
Acknowledgement of Country
The university acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people, and the Gamaygal people upon whose ancestral lands the university stands. The university pays respect to the Elders, both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.