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In the US, the very same blood test can cost $19 at one clinic and $522 at another clinic just blocks away -- and nobody knows the difference until they get a bill weeks later. Journalist Jeanne Pinder says it doesn't have to be this way. She's built a platform that crowdsources the true costs of medical procedures and makes the data public, revealing the secrets of health care pricing. Learn how knowing what stuff costs in advance could make us healthier, save us money -- and help fix a broken system.
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- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
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- Medical care -- Cost control Medical care Cost of
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In this learning activity you'll plot GDP data on a graph and determine a phase of the business cycle.
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- Economics
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- Gross domestic product Business cycles
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What does the future of business look like? In an informative talk, Philip Evans gives a quick primer on two long-standing theories in strategy -- and explains why he thinks they are essentially invalid.
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- Business Information Technology
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- Business enterprises -- Technological innovations Business -- Data processing
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What is the blockchain? If you don't know, you should; if you do, chances are you still need some clarification on how it actually works. Don Tapscott is here to help, demystifying this world-changing, trust-building technology which, he says, represents nothing less than the second generation of the internet and holds the potential to transform money, business, government and society.
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- Finance and Economics
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- Banks banking -- Technological innovations Blockchains (Databases)
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"The only way we're going to make substantial progress on the challenging problems of our time is for business to drive the solutions," says social impact strategist Wendy Woods. In a data-packed talk, Woods shares a fresh way to assess the impact all parts of business can have on all parts of society, and then adjust them to not only do less harm but actually improve things. Learn more about how executives can move beyond corporate social responsibility to "total societal impact" -- for the benefit of both a company's bottom line and society at large.
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- Corporate Social Responsibility
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- Industries -- Social aspects Social responsibility of business
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In 10 episodes, John Green will teach you how to navigate the internet! We’ve partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to develop this curriculum of hands-on skills to help you evaluate the information you read online. By the end of this course, you will be able to: * Examine information using the same skills and questions as fact-checkers * Read laterally to learn more about the authority and perspective of sources * Evaluate different types of evidence, from videos to infographics * Understand how search engines and social media feeds work * Break bad internet habits like impatience and passivity, and build better ones
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- Information literacy Human-computer interaction Study skills
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In this introduction to using SPSS I will show you around the SPSS workspace. If you are familiar with Microsoft Excel, you will notice some similarities with Excel. You will learn how to open a new dataset in SPSS, create new variables, enter data, and save the dataset. These will be important skills for every SPSS session you do. These skills are foundational to using the IBM SPSS Statistics software. This video teaches the following commands and techniques: Open SPSS SPSS Data view SPSS Variable view Variable types in SPSS
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- Statistics -- Computer programs SPSS (Computer file)
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This video provides an introduction to SPSS/PASW. It shows how to navigate between Data View and Variable View, and shows how to modify properties of variables.
- Course related:
- ENGL518 Research Design and Methods
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- Statistics -- Computer programs SPSS (Computer file) Social sciences -- Statistical methods -- Computer programs
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In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of the Python programming language, along with programming best practices. You’ll learn to represent and store data using Python data types and variables, and use conditionals and loops to control the flow of your programs. You’ll harness the power of complex data structures like lists, sets, dictionaries, and tuples to store collections of related data. You’ll define and document your own custom functions, write scripts, and handle errors. Lastly, you’ll learn to find and use modules in the Python Standard Library and other third-party libraries.
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- Computing
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- Python (Computer program language)
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- MOOC
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Why do we study statistics? The field of statistics provides professionals and scientists withconceptual foundations and useful techniques for evaluating ideas, testing theories, and - ultimately -uncovering the truth in any situation. This course will familiarize you with data and basic statistical concepts, enabling you to analyze data using graphs and statistics. We'll start with types of data, controlled experiments,and observational study. You'll learn touse ahistogram, a representation of the distribution of numerical data, to easily arrange data. You will learn about basic concepts of statistics, such as average and standard deviation. Methods of using the normal approximation to solve a problem will be covered in this course. Inaddition, we'll discussthe correlation coefficient and the regression method in order to represent the relationship between two variables.
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- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Statistics
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- MOOC
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