Get a taste of a typical data analysis workflow, build from scratch your first data set and launch a fully-fledged online visualisation.
Get familiar with a CSV file format and explore Open Refine, a tool used by researchers and data journalists that will help you automatically clean your data, correct language inaccuracies, and perform table transformations.
Learn the basic types of data visualisation and practice publishing it online to make it look good on your desktop or smartphone.
Master the find and replace command and discover regular expressions that will speed up your daily work and open up new horizons for text researchers.
Learn scraping and parsing data from various online sources, e.g. web pages, online maps or PDF files.