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 covers what is required to effectively manage career progression. It explores career challenges, how they can be overcome and what support is needed (and available) to help make the next career steps.
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 classroom based session aims to introduce participants to the processes of editing and imputing in business and social surveys. The course considers the editing process of detecting and correcting errors in survey response data, as well as the imputation process of estimating for survey non-response.
Learn moreThis course will provide an overview of geospatial analysis theory in the context of official statistics, which participants will then apply and interpret in a practical context. The focus will be on using location to gain a deeper understanding of data analyses.
Learn moreThis classroom based session aims to introduce participants to the theoretical background to index numbers. The course also discusses the index number techniques used in practice, as well as aspects of price indices.
Learn moreThis is a classroom-based session aims to explore more complex aspects of sampling and estimation that are particularly applicable to business (or establishment) surveys.
Learn moreThis classroom based session aims to explore more complex aspects of sampling and estimation that are particularly applicable to social (household) surveys.
Learn moreThis classroom based session aims to introduce participants to the basic and advanced theory behind seasonal adjustment and the seasonal adjustment process.
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