{"id":103,"date":"2014-11-04T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/11\/04\/big-data\/"},"modified":"2014-11-04T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:38:00","slug":"big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, we&#8217;ve been developing a couple of Higher National Units in the area of big data for a few months. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big Data (SCQF Level 7)<\/li>\n<li>Data Science (SCQF Level 8).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They&#8217;re almost complete now. The Big Data unit is complete, and is currently going through vetting, so I would be interested in your comments on it.<\/p>\n<p>Both units will be available to centres from <b>January<\/b>. The Level 7 unit will be added to HNC Computing, and the Level 8 unit will be added to some HND awards (to be decided). It&#8217;s likely that awards in other sectors will use the Level 7 unit too.<\/p>\n<p>Big data has been described as the &#8220;new oil&#8221; and it looks like there will be lots of jobs in this area in the coming years.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZBriEcFWrpw\/VFjxv5hzC3I\/AAAAAAAAilU\/rE9qAsuphRA\/s1600\/Big%2Bdata%2Binfographic.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZBriEcFWrpw\/VFjxv5hzC3I\/AAAAAAAAilU\/rE9qAsuphRA\/s1600\/Big%2Bdata%2Binfographic.png\" height=\"640\" width=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Caroline<\/a> for more information about these new units or check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-skills.com\/research\/research-themes\/big-data-analytics\/big-data-infographics-nov-14\/\/?utm_source=BigData_e-skillscontacts&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=BigDataOct14Report\">E-Skills website<\/a> for more information about jobs in this field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, we&#8217;ve been developing a couple of Higher National Units in the area of big data for a few months. They are: Big Data (SCQF Level 7) Data Science (SCQF Level 8). They&#8217;re almost complete now. The Big Data unit is complete, and is currently going through vetting, so I would be interested in your comments on it. Both units will be available to centres from January. The Level 7 unit will be added to HNC Computing, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}