Last year the Open Data Institute (ODI), one of the key EDSA partners, launched the ‘Open Data Science‘ course, which is a key deliverable of the project. Dr Tarrant, trainer at the ODI, says that “A key aspect of data science is all about culture – about innovating openly and in a team environment. Individual organisations […]
A report entitled: The Big Data Dilemma, launched by the Science and Technology Committee, contains many contributions from two of our key partners, the Open University (OU) and the Open Data Institute (ODI). The value of big data has brought with it many benefits, including increasing the GDP by 2.3%, but also many concerns regarding its […]
The EDSA project are proud to announce that we have now launched the MOOC “Introduction to Linked Data and the Semantic Web”. Offered by the University of Southampton, the topic is becoming increasingly popular within the data science community. On this course you will learn the basics of Linked Data and the Semantic Web – exploring […]
The EDISON project organised and delivered on February 9th in Brussels a workshop entitled: “Data Infrastructure Competences and Skills Framework: a European and Global Challenge”. The main objective of this event was to take stock of the main initiatives and projects in the digital infrastructure ecosystem and map their contributions to the definition of an ambitious […]
EDSA has launched a set of self-study courses covering the following topics: Foundations of Data Science Foundations of Big Data Big Data Architecture Distributed Computing Process Mining Essentials of Data Analytics and Machine Learning The courses are available in the EDSA online courses portal, where learners can enrol and study the learning materials at their own pace. […]
The Higher Education Commission is due to release a policy report titled: From Bricks to Clicks: the potential of data and analytics in higher education. The report reviews the current data landscape across English higher education institutions; reviewing data collection and methods, learning analytics and the current barriers to developing data management and data analytics for the foreseeable future. […]
One of the members of our lead partner, Prof John Domingue, contributed to a report on the mass data monitoring of universities, through learning analytics, for increased student successes. John Domingue says more comprehensive use of learning analytics could indeed transform the sector. “Each week students are making moves as you make moves on a chess […]
The European Data Science Academy (EDSA) project partner, Prof. John Domingue, from the Open University is to participate as a panel member at the e-Skills 2015 conference in Luxembourg on 15th of December 2015. The session titled Skills for today and tomorrow: Embracing digital at the workplace, is representative of the work being completed across […]
A group of EDSA partners will be attending the European Data Forum located in Luxembourg between the 16th and 17th of November. This conference brings together a host of data professionals, researchers and policymakers to discuss the challenges associated with Big Data and the emerging data economy. An EDSA partner from the University of Southampton, Dr. […]
Aligned with our objectives of establishing a EU-wide curriculum on Data Science that meets the expectations of industry, academia and of data scientists themselves, the EDSA has launched an online survey to gather data regarding the demand, skills and expectations of data science workers and learning initiatives. Such data will enable us to develop multi-platform and […]