Understanding open data Copy

This lesson has been created as a partnership between Code for Africa and the World Bank. Source materials can be found at the World Bank Open Data Toolkit and are reproduced with kind permission. This lesson is about understanding data and how to determine its quality. In this lesson you will learn how to evaluate data and metadata; choose the most appropriate data for a given task; and understand data licensing. You will learn these skills by completing a real-life data search for a popular topic. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• Achieve metadata literacy
• Use metadata to evaluate data choices
• Learn how to identify and interpret a data licence