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Other Popular Free Tools. Orian Brook, University of Stirling Presentation to the Scottish Civil Society Data Partnership Project (S-CSDP), Webinar 2 on ‘Popular tools of data analysis: MS Excel and online data analysis resources’ www.thinkdata.org.uk , 4 Mar 2016. Useful online free tools:.
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Other Popular Free Tools Orian Brook, University of Stirling Presentation to the Scottish Civil Society Data Partnership Project (S-CSDP), Webinar 2 on ‘Popular tools of data analysis: MS Excel and online data analysis resources’ www.thinkdata.org.uk, 4 Mar 2016
Useful online free tools: • All are easy to use without specialist knowledge • Replicate more complicated tools used by academics • Less sophisticated but much less learning investment required • And in some cases better than academic tools! • Mapping with Google Fusion Tables and Doogal • Estimating populations in local areas using Population Builder • Exploring the 2011 Census with Datashine • Profiling populations with the National Records of Scotland S-CSDP, 4 Mar 2016
1 Mapping Tools • Google Fusion – you will need a google login https://www.google.com/fusiontables/data?dsrcid=implicit Estimating populations in local areas using Population Builder • www.doogal.co.uk – everything postcode! • www.qgis.org is a geographic information system (ie mapping software) which is free but requires a great deal of knowledge to use S-CSDP, 4 Mar 2016
2 Population Builder http://olihawkins.com/projects/popbuilder/ Does one thing extremely well! Select areas, count population, profile it, download data S-CSDP, 4 Mar 2016
3 Datashine http://scotland.datashine.org.uk • Visualises 2011 Census data in a very user-friendly way • Can also download underlying data • Versions exist for other parts of the UK S-CSDP, 4 Mar 2016
4 National Records for Scotland http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ods-web/home.html • A more comprehensive suite of tools for viewing and comparing Census 2011 data • although Datashine is better at mapping! • Can also download all kinds of text files of data and cross-tabulations S-CSDP, 4 Mar 2016