4. Progression Pathway
1. What is Data?
2. Interpreting Data
3. What is Data Science?
4. Data Types and Formats
5. Capturing Data
6. Security
7. Privacy
8. Data Manipulation
9. Statistics
10. Ethics and Bias
11. Analysis
12. Quality and Management
13. Visualisation and Storytelling
14. Tools and Languages
5. What is Data?
History and growth of data
Where data comes from
Value of data
Open, Public and Private data
7. What is Data Science?
History and growth of data science
Applications of data science
Data science lifecycle
Data scientists and domain experts
Data maturity
8. Data Types and Formats
Quantitative data (discrete and continuous)
Qualitative data (nominal, ordinal and binary)
Data models and the structure of data
Structured, unstructured and semi-structured data
17. Quality and Management
Impacts of poor quality data
Data quality dimensions
Caring for data
Data management and governance
Metadata and data dictionaries