Developing Your Data Skills Programme

Demystify data science with our new programme to develop your data skills.

The Developing Your Data Skills Programme is new from the Digital Skills and Training team, and aims to demystify data science and develop the data skills of our staff and students.

In an increasingly technical workplace, where digital transformation means our core services and systems are becoming fully digital, data skills play an increasingly important role for our staff, students and the organisation. The City Deal has also highlighted the need for data skills with plans to train 100,000 people in south east Scotland alone over the coming years.

What is the Developing Your Data Skills Programme?

• A flexible programme using online self-study resources combined with workshops plus a small data project.
• It runs over a six-month period (25-40 study hours).
• There are three sections:
  • Introduction to Data Skills and Programming
  • Statistics and Data Analysis
  • Presenting Your Data

Who is it for?

Three capability pathways make the programme suitable for a variety of staff and students irrespective of their role and prior level of knowledge:

• Beginner (level 1) – for anyone who hasn’t worked with data before

• Intermediate (level 2) – for those who use Excel routinely and feel comfortable with statistics

• Advanced (level 3) – for those who have programmed in R or Python and are experienced in statistics and using Excel

How to sign up

Sign up through the Event Booking channel on MyEd. The next programmes start on:

Semester 1:

Cohort 37 - Mainly Professional Services Staff - 29th September 2021

Cohort 38 - Mainly Professional Services Staff - 12th October 2021

Cohort 39 - Mainly Students (UG&PT)               - 20th October 2021

Cohort 40 - Mainly Professional Services Staff - 28th October 2021

Cohort 41 - Mainly Professional Services Staff - 9th November 2021

Cohort 42 - Mainly Professional Services Staff - 23rd November 2021

Cohort 43 - Mainly Professional Services Staff - 2nd December 2021

Semester 2: Cohort 44 - Mainly Researchers - 12th January 2022

Cohort 45 - Mainly Researchers - 17th January 2022

Cohort 46 - Mainly Researchers - 20th January 2022

Cohort 47 - Mainly Researchers - 26th January 2022

Cohort 48 - Mainly Researchers - 2nd February 2022

Email Tracy.Steinberg@ed.ac.uk to sign up. Cohorts are for staff and PG students.

Further info

See the Developing Your Data Skills webpage or email Tracy.Steinberg@ed.ac.uk in Digital Skills and Training, Information Services Group.

(Ed. this article was originally published October/November 2019)