Processing Data for Analysis

Inquiry question: How is data processed so that it is ready for analysis?

Students:

• investigate appropriate methods for processing, recording, organising and storing data using modern technologies
• conduct a practical investigation to obtain a qualitative and a quantitative set of data and apply appropriate methods to process, record, store and organise this data
• assess the impact of making a large data set from scientific sources public, for example:

– LHC (Large Hadron Collider)

– Kepler Telescope

– Human Genome Project

• conduct an investigation to access and obtain relevant publicly available data set(s), associated with the proposed hypothesis, for inclusion in the development of the Scientific Research Project

Assess the impact of making a large data set public

Kepler Telescope

White paper on impact of the publicly available data sets from the Kepler telescope: https://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/new-white-paper-scientific-opportunities-with-kepler-k2-archive-data.html

Resources

Neural data storage and visualisation tool published in Nature methods: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07195-2?utm_source=fbk_nr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=NGMTnature (fulltext of article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02835.pdf)

Investigation to access and obtain relevant publicly available data set

https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch