School of Data

Digital Literacies for #TheTechWeWant: tools and methods that are useful, simple and focused on solving people’s real problems. Powered by @OKFN.

[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

Stay tuned for new institutional partnerships and activities to reconnect with the past fellows and trainers as we prepare the ground for @SchoolofData to also provide applied #AILiteracy.

Learn more in the blog announcement: https://t.co/uzG9b9jxiY

[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

🥳 What a joy! The new @SchoolOfData platform is now live at https://t.co/WWu1z2WFNp. This is a major milestone in our community’s exciting reactivation journey! 🧵

[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

🔵 Check out our latest resource, 'Quality and Consistent Data with #OpenDataEditor' (developed in partnership with @okfnbr and @EscolaDeDados: https://t.co/8O25ObFald
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[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

🤗 In May, we brought the community together again for a special training session, equipping trainers to deliver the #OpenDataEditor course locally.

Their courses are expected to reach an estimated 500 people worldwide in June.

👉🏾 Learn more: https://t.co/lyZ3Iq1PHc

[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

🏅 The #OpenDataEditor app + course combo is definitely your gateway to the world of data.

See everything you'll learn in just 15 hours. Plus it's free and fun!

📚 https://t.co/3IPPYC2vh6

Let's bridge the digital literacy gap together!

#ODE
#TheTechWeWant

[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

🧐 How open is your data?

★ 5-star Open Data from @timberners_lee is one of the assessment frameworks you'll learn about in the 'Quality and Consistent Data with the #OpenDataEditor'

The course is free, online, and fun! 👉🏾 Start today: https://t.co/4wYk4BDg2M

#opendata
#ODE

[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

⭐️ What you’ll learn ⭐️

✅ Learning-by-doing
• Follow in the footsteps of an exclusive instructor
• Get hands-on and learn from your mistakes and successes
• Learn how to handle databases without writing code

👉🏾 More: https://t.co/SLdBEEb3NW

[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

⭐️ What you’ll learn ⭐️

✅ Detecting and fixing errors in tables
• Learn to work with #tabulardata
• Don’t get lost when validating your spreadsheet
• Clean up your spreadsheets to gain valuable insights

👉🏾 More: https://t.co/SLdBEEb3NW

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[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

⭐️ What you’ll learn ⭐️

✅ FAIR data principles
• Understand how to guarantee the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets
• Master all about #metadata
• Understand the principles of #opendata

👉🏾 More: https://t.co/SLdBEEb3NW

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[School of Data @SchoolOfData]

📣 Enroll now! "Quality and Consistent Data with the #OpenDataEditor" – a free, learn-by-doing online course designed for non-technical users. Developed by @OKFN @okfnbr @EscolaDeDados, it's part of our mission to increase #digitalliteracy.

👉🏾 More: https://t.co/4wYk4BDg2M

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[UCT Research @UCT_Research]

There is power in meeting people in person, says Ghana's @sdopoku from @SchoolOfData. What else do we lose when academic conferences go #virtual?

Join the #NewGlobalUni conversation 29 June. Register here: https://t.co/wvEDAZYxBD

[OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data @humdata]

⏳ Have a few minutes to learn about visualising #COVID19 data?

Check out our 🆕 online training ➡️ https://t.co/tb3jGcp5u1

[Camila Salazar @milamila07]

5 years ago I attended my first international open data conference as a @SchoolOfData fellow. It’s been 5 years of an amazing journey working with open data and getting to know an amazing global community. For many years to come!

[Caribbean School of Data @csod_coi]

Our #CSOD #CSODDR students have started their matriculation process for our basic programme that will run for 12 weeks in the Dominican Republic. #CSODJa

[Facade for mastodon.social/@benhur07b @benhur07b]

:) @workbenchdata has become a staple when I do workshops on #DataLiteracy and working with data using
@SchoolOfData's #DataPipeline. I've gotten great feedback for it from veterans to beginners who've never touched a spreadsheet. Do check it out at https://t.co/GmaG7iibLL.

[Meg Foulkes @FoulkesMeg]

@CromwellWilkes at @SchoolOfData we're rolling out a new training for the legal profession that will allow lawyers to evidence and challenge this kind of AI bias.

[Caribbean School of Data @csod_coi]

Today we launch the CSOD in Jamaica.The CSOD is funded by @Googleorg and is executed by a Network of Regional Partners across the Caribbean through our unique, blended learning model. Principal implementation partners for the #CSOD are @MSBM and @Slashroots. #CSODJa

[Cédric Lombion @clombion]

Revisiting a fantastic article by @paulbradshaw summarising the insights from diplomatic studies and applying them to #ddj
→ https://t.co/JQzSnZxmRr

Very relevant to the VERIFY step of @SchoolOfData 's data pipeline, and gives grounding to what I'm teaching at @IjbaOfficiel