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Data leadership skills
Data leadership skills

Helping leaders improve their understanding and make the most of data within their organisation.

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FrameworkAnna Ashton Scott25 March 2022Data leadership skills, Themes
Data engineering skills
Data engineering skills

Before data can be analysed and have meaning taken from it, effective systems and processes need to be in place that enable data to be harvested.

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FrameworkAnna Ashton Scott24 March 2022Data engineering skills, Themes
Creative and business skills
Creative and business skills

This involves professional skills, such as effective problem solving, service design, communications, storytelling, and project planning/delivery.

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FrameworkAnna Ashton Scott23 March 2022Creative and business skills, Themes
Data governance

Data governance is an important consideration for those involved in supervising/governing the actions of others in an organisation in relation to data. This includes ensuring data integrity (data standards) and usability throughout its lifecycle (data flow), compliance with legislation, and ensuring processes are in place and followed by others.

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FrameworkGuest User20 March 2022Data worker, Data professional, Data leader, Data management skills, Skills
Data engineering

Data engineers develop and maintain data systems. There is a recognised shortage of people with skills in this area, which the employer research confirmed. Data engineers have the knowledge and skills to design, develop, test, evaluate and modify data engineering solutions, choosing appropriate data sources and analysis tools.

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FrameworkGuest User19 March 2022Data professional, Data engineering skills, Skills
AI, machine learning and predictive analytics

This is a new and emerging area that some employers are keen to move into. Learners will gain an understanding of different modelling techniques, how to apply them, and an ability to translate this into usable insights and communicate the results.

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FrameworkGuest User19 March 2022Data professional, Analysis skills, Skills
Managing a data team

How do you build and manage an effective data science team within an organisation? It is clear that while there is a great deal of enthusiasm about advancing the role of data, not all organisations have a clear understanding of the skills they need and why.

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FrameworkGuest User18 March 2022Data professional, Data leader, Data leadership skills, Skills
Data strategy and leadership

What data does the organisation have, what data is important, and how can you go about driving value from it? This is what a data strategy seeks to set out – looking at job roles, responsibility, infrastructure, organisational culture, policies, and regulatory compliance – setting out a plan for data-driven innovation.

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FrameworkGuest User18 March 2022Data leader, Data professional, Data worker, Data leadership skills, Skills
Project appraisal, problem solving, and delivery

How to think through organisational issues/problems, develop research questions, and explore data-driven solutions to them (service design) – and how to support others within the organisation to make the most of their data team.

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FrameworkGuest User17 March 2022Data professional, Creative and business skills, Skills
Communications and storytelling

How to engage audiences with data, written and verbal communication skills, making visualisations and data insight understandable to and usable by different audiences, including those at Data Citizen and Data Worker level within their own organisation.

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FrameworkGuest User17 March 2022Data professional, Data leader, Creative and business skills, Skills
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