{"id":3248,"date":"2019-12-06T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2019-12-06T12:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T12:35:52","slug":"training-in-data-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/training-in-data-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Training in data science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a Digital Skills Partnership event on data science recently, which was held at the Langside Campus of Glasgow Clyde College. The purpose of the event was to update college lecturers about developments in data science. The presentations and workshops were presented by lecturers from St Andrews and Edinburgh universities.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/12\/20191127_104103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3249\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/20191127_104103-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I enjoyed the event a great deal, and learned something about <a href=\"https:\/\/jupyter.org\/\">Jupyter Notebooks<\/a>, which look great for teaching and learning.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re doing a lot of developments in this area. The recently produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/91458.html\">NPA Data Science<\/a> has been well received. We recently started work on a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/professional-development-awards-in-data-science\/\">Professional Development Award in Data Science<\/a>. And a new HND in Data Science will be produced as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/hn-review-update-4\/\">forthcoming HN Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:computing@sqa.org.uk\">contact the team<\/a> if you want to know more about any of these developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a Digital Skills Partnership event on data science recently, which was held at the Langside Campus of Glasgow Clyde College. The purpose of the event was to update college lecturers about developments in data science. The presentations and workshops were presented by lecturers from St Andrews and Edinburgh universities. I enjoyed the event a great deal, and learned something about Jupyter Notebooks, which look great for teaching and learning. We&#8217;re doing a lot of developments in this area.&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\/3248","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=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}