CE702 Finding Information in Numbers and Words: Data Analysis for Health Information Outreach

Level: Beginning
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $240 (nonmember, $445)
Attendance Maximum: 30

Instructor(s): Susan Barnes, Assistant Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine Outreach Evaluation Resource Center, Health Sciences Library, University of Washington-Seattle, and Cindy Olney, Evaluation Specialist, CO Consulting, LLC, Roswell, GA

Offered: Saturday, May 22, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

This very basic course is designed to improve librarians' ability to compile and analyze qualitative (text-based) and quantitative (numeric) evaluation data about health information outreach programs. Participants will learn to use descriptive statistics and graphs to make sense of numeric data and to organize, code, and analyze text-based data.