{"id":3413,"date":"2020-06-02T11:54:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2020-06-02T11:54:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:54:26","slug":"pda-data-science-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/pda-data-science-update\/","title":{"rendered":"PDA Data Science update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers will know, we&#8217;re currently developing a new suite of qualifications in data science. The <em>Professional Development Awards in Data Science<\/em> will be available at <a href=\"https:\/\/scqf.org.uk\/\">SCQF<\/a> Levels 7, 8 and 9.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Level 7<\/strong> award is for everyone or, at least, everyone who works with data. This qualification will provide data analysis skills for people who don&#8217;t want to become data scientists but need to know how to handle large datasets and make business decisions based on that data. The\u00a0<strong>Level 9<\/strong> award is for people who want to specialise in data work (&#8220;data professionals&#8221;) and is heavy on data engineering and machine learning. The\u00a0<strong>Level 8<\/strong> award is in-between and can be used by data workers, who want to improve their data skills by learning about data programming, and data professionals, who want a gentle introduction to the discipline.<\/p>\n<p>The development team is busy working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/pdas-data-science-update\/\">component units<\/a>, which include new units called &#8220;Working with Data&#8221;, &#8220;Communicating with Data&#8221;, &#8220;Programming with Data&#8221; and &#8220;Data Engineering&#8221;. We&#8217;re also planning for the validation event, which will take place on <strong>25 June<\/strong>. A validation panel has been selected, which will be convened by a representative of the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>This suite of awards will be available to centres from <strong>1 August<\/strong>. Please <a href=\"mailto:emma.campos@sqa.org.uk\">contact Emma<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers will know, we&#8217;re currently developing a new suite of qualifications in data science. The Professional Development Awards in Data Science will be available at SCQF Levels 7, 8 and 9. The\u00a0Level 7 award is for everyone or, at least, everyone who works with data. This qualification will provide data analysis skills for people who don&#8217;t want to become data scientists but need to know how to handle large datasets and make business decisions based on that data.&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\/3413","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=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}