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The written word has great power today and it is important that those who earn their living by communicating information and ideas to a wider public, do so with skill, integrity, and accuracy. The material on these pages has been designed to help you to understand the numerical techniques that competent and effective journalists, managers, presenters and researchers might employ to collect, process and analyse (and make valid deductions from) the large amounts of qualitative and quantitative information that relate to their work.

Your ability to handle many types of data effectively will be one of the most useful skills that you will acquire during your undergraduate course.

In this programme there are many examples of the various techniques in action and also interactive exercises to help you practice and to monitor your own progress and understanding.

Many of the advanced techniques will be of particular use to students undertaking dissertation / post-graduate work.... at all levels.

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