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Digital Technologies / Year 7 and 8 / Processes and production skills / Acquiring, managing and analysing data
Curriculum content descriptions
acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases (AC9TDI8P01)
Elaborations
- acquiring data to answer questions for their own investigations, for example answering "Does the canteen sell the right food?" by designing a survey to collect food preferences data and accessing canteen sales data
- judging how meaningful data is to a question, its correctness and how up to date the data is, for example "Does age affect the chance of cyclist injury?", "Are self-reported accidents reliable?" and "Is the data before cycleways existed relevant?"
- storing acquired data using specialised and general software appropriate for how it will be accessed and manipulated, for example a spreadsheet for visualisation or a pre-defined database for filtering and queries
- acquiring, storing and validating data from a reputable source, such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics, to analyse the geographic distribution of First Nations Australians, with the aim to highlight past and emerging trends
- ensuring that the data used to train an AI model minimises any potential biases in its output and is representative of the target audience; for example, training a model on data collected from a single demographic group may not produce correct outputs for a more diverse population
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Databases, Data collection, Spreadsheets