Computer Skills, Statistics and Data Management in the Winery

The contribution of course to the achievement of the educational objectives of the bachelor degree consistently with the professional profiles and employment opportunities provided for the entire training course consists in the acquisition of the ability to consult bibliographic and thematic databases, and in the to collect the essential information for the technical description of the related environmental, structural and managerial characteristics preparatory for their critical evaluation. To acquire the knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics, essential for the description of biological phenomena and the evaluation of simple viticultural experiments, in an integrated vision, having obtained the computer skills needed for their synoptic and graphic representation.

At the end of the course, the student will have adequate knowledge of the most popular database management software, as well as the notions for effective querying of search engines to find information. He/she will also have acquired adequate knowledge of descriptive statistics and elements of inferential statistics; an adequate ability to produce technical report in synoptic and graphic form. Furthermore, the student will acquire the ability to approach a technical-scientific report documented as a final dissertation or a technical report, with reference to the vinicultural farm, in relation to the environmental (geographical and pedoclimatic), land (land and buildings) and management description (genetic resources, plants, machinery and technical tools), and the critical description of the production processes in the vineyard and in the winery.