This awareness-level course is aimed at managers explores what data science is, why it’s needed across government and how it is currently being used. Participants will also be signposted to the wider support networks and capability building options available.
Learn moreThis course aims to provide participants with an awareness of new coding tools. We will compare them with R and Python and discuss when they are best used.
Learn moreThis course focuses on best practice in programming in terms of readability.
Learn moreThis course is aimed at all GSS staff and seeks to explain what big data and data science are through the use of examples and to demonstrate how new data sources and/or new data science techniques can drive data insights and serve the public good.
Learn moreThis course introduces basic commands and operations performed in the command line interface on computers.
Learn moreThese courses, offered by the DataCamp website, take you from a complete data science beginner through to data visualisation, machine learning, forecasting, and beyond.
Learn moreThis course will give you experience using the SQL methods of database querying, manipulation and editing.
Learn moreThis is an intermediate-level course exploring the data science workflow using R and how the Tidyverse assists at each stage of the flow. The focus of the course is on the reflection, collection and preparation stages of the data science process.
Learn moreThis course will give you an understanding of the git version control system, along with experience working both locally and in collaboration.
Learn moreThis course introduces the basic concepts of machine learning.
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