9.2 Tool Focus - Using your tools

Once you have chosen your tool(s) according to your resources and needs, you need to process your data. Before you start analysing the data, you will need to do two main tasks:

• Clean up your data
• Import your data from your MDC tool to your analysis tool

The order in which you perform these tasks will depend on whether you choose to clean up directly in your MDC tool rather than in your analysis tool.

Data cleaning general methodolgy is detailed in section 3 Getting clean and usable data of the Analysis toolkit. Data importation and exportation is explained for certain tools directly in the following sub-sections.

This section is divided by tool :

• Your MDC platform directly,
• Excel,
• Business Intelligence tools,
• Google Sheets,
• Advanced statistical tools,
• Geographic tools.