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Data Analytics topics

Find out how to use data to inform your decision-making, prepare and model data, and use powerful analytical tools and present data visually to communicate insight and provide informed decision support.
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Data driven decision-making

Placing data in a business context gives the necessary clarity to any analysis.
Exclusive Introduction to data driven decision-making
  • 18 Sep 2019
  • Data Analytics Community
A Data Analytics Community webinar on data driven decision-making presented by Matthew Robinson.
An introduction to data science
  • 08 Jul 2019
  • Business and Management Faculty
Hear first-hand the benefits of data science for accountants and learn how to get started using data to identify patterns, make predictions and automate decision making.
OR Society business case studies
  • 25 Sep 2019
Case studies of the use of analytics, searchable by industry, application, benefit or function.
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Data preparation

Time consuming and laborious yet data preparation is critical to any analysis.
Exclusive Data prep 101
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Data Analytics Community
A Data Analytics Community webinar on data preparation presented by Dr Rob Mastrodomenico.
Preparing data for analysis
  • 13 Aug 2014
  • Meredith Rocci
An online lecture from Dr Meredith Rocci on the data preparation process including data cleaning, impossible values, response sets, missing values and outliers.
Why data preparation shouldn't be overlooked
  • 16 Dec 2016
  • Ashish Sukhadeve
This article looks at how data preparation is the most time-consuming part of analysis. Accurate analysis depends on how well the data has been prepared and managed.
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Data ethics

Investigate how the explosion in data is posing new questions over its use.
Exclusive Data governance and ethics
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Data Analytics Community
A Data Analytics Community webinar on data ethics and governance presented by Dr Alessandro Merendino and Professor Maureen Meadows.
Data protection and privacy All organisations that collect, store or process personal information on living and identifiable people must comply with the Data Protection Act 2018. Additional resources can be found on the GDPR (now the Data Protection Act 2018 in the UK).
Data Ethics Framework
  • 30 Aug 2018
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
The Data Ethics Framework guides the design of appropriate data use in government and the wider public sector. It is aimed at anyone working directly or indirectly with data in the public sector, including data practitioners (statisticians, analysts and data scientists), policymakers, operational staff and those helping to produce data-informed insight.
Data management and use
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • The Royal Society, British Academy
Review conducted by the British Academy and Royal Society with leading academics, industry leaders, civil society and data and technology specialists looking at the needs of a 21st century data governance system. It includes a report and case studies.
Ethics of big data
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • Doug Patterson, Kord Davis
This book contains a framework for productive discussion and thinking about ethics and big data in business environments. The opening chapter is free to view.
What is data ethics?
  • 03 Oct 2016
  • Luciano Floridi, Mariarosaria Taddeo
Journal article, part of the themed issue ‘The ethical impact of data science’.
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Data modelling

Find out about modelling, mining and statistical techniques.
Exclusive Introduction to data analytics: the normal distribution, sampling and regression
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Data Analytics Community
A Data Analytics Community webinar presented by Professor Maureen Meadows and Dr Alessandro Merendino.
Exclusive Introduction to statistical data analysis
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Data Analytics Community
A Data Analytics Community webinar introducing statistical data analysis presented by Nigel Marriott.
Exclusive Trend analysis and forecasting
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Data Analytics Community
A Data Analytics Community webinar on trend analysis and forecasting presented by Nigel Marriott.
Advanced analytics explained
  • 23 Sep 2019
This podcast taken from ICAEW's Finance in a Digital World introduces some of the statistical techniques used to perform data analytics.
Statsoft's Electronic Statistics Textbook
  • 23 Sep 2019
This electronic textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics and data mining. Beginning with an overview of the relevant elementary concepts, it continues with a more in-depth exploration of specific areas of statistics.
StatQuest with Josh Starmer
  • 23 Sep 2019
  • Josh Starmer
StatQuest videos break down complicated statistics and machine learning methods into small, bite-sized pieces that are easy to understand. This page introduces the series and below we have individual links to the main titles in the series.
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Modelling tools

Learn about Power BI, Python, R, SQL and other modelling tools.
Exclusive Getting over the Excel hump
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Data Analytics Community
A Data Analytics Community webinar on using programming languages for data modelling presented by Dr Rob Mastrodomenico.
Python v R for data science
  • 31 Jan 2018
Overview and comparison of the benefits of R and Python - two popular programming tools for data science work.
Python Data Analysis Library
  • 10 Oct 2019
PANDAS is an open source library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language.
Introduction to R
  • 05 Jul 2019
  • W N Venables, D M Smith, R Core Team
Notes on R: a programming environment for data analysis and graphics.
Learn Power BI
  • 04 Nov 2019
Official Microsoft Power Bi site with guided learning, samples, documentation and blogs.
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Data visualisation

How to present your data to maximise impact.
Visualising COVID-19 under 'Data visualisation'
As a member of the Data Analytics Community, you have access to eLearning courses provided by Coursera, DataCamp and Udemy and CPD courses from the ICAEW Academy of Professional Development.
Exclusive The seven hats of data visualisation
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Data Analytics Community
A Data Analytics Community webinar on data visualisation presented by Andy Kirk.
Advanced analytics and visualisation
  • 24 Oct 2019
Explore analytics and visualisation more in detail with this eLearning module from the ICAEW Finance in a Digital World
Chartmaker
  • 11 Oct 2019
A visual matrix designed to answer 'Which tool do you need to make that chart?'.
The data visualisation catalogue
  • 11 Oct 2019
A catalogue of different types of data visualisation charts. It aims to be a guide for selecting chart types based on your analysis or communication needs.
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Thought leadership

Our thought leadership is intended to change thinking and behaviour. We want to help our members do their jobs as best they can. Ultimately, this will enable a world of sustainable economies.
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Rodin's The Thinker