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Course directory

Core curriculum

Data and analysis: Foundations of Public Administration

The flagship core curriculum course for policy professionals who need to be an intelligent customer for data analysis.

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    Data and analysis
    Working Tutor-led

    Act as an intelligent customer for data analysis: articulate requirements to analysts and communicate results to decision-makers.

Data ethics pathway

Build ethical data and AI practice step by step

From free essentials through practitioner depth to the certified Data Ethics Professionals programme.

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    Data ethics essentials [FREE]
    Foundation Self-paced

    Introducing what data ethics is and why it matters for working with data and AI.

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    Navigating innovation responsibly with data and AI ethics
    Working Tutor-led

    Introduction to data ethics and responsible innovation with data and AI.

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    Understanding data ethics and AI
    Working Self-paced

    Apply practical data ethics across the lifecycle, covering personal data, governance, bias and embedding ethics in practice.

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    Running ethical impact assessments Coming soon
    Working Self-paced and tutor-led

    Decide when an ethical impact assessment is needed, choose appropriate tools and frameworks, and apply them to data and AI projects.

    Coming soon
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    Data protection and AI regulation essentials Coming soon
    Working Self-paced and tutor-led

    Apply data protection and AI regulation in practice, including licensing and transparency and explainability requirements.

    Coming soon
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    Building fair and reliable AI models Coming soon
    Working Self-paced and tutor-led

    Apply predictive AI to real data, and detect and address bias and fairness issues in models and datasets.

    Coming soon
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    Generative AI: driving innovation in data practices
    Working Tutor-led

    Opportunities and risks of generative AI across the data lifecycle, with responsible-use framing.

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    Data Ethics Professionals
    Working Tutor-led

    Our certified flagship programme: build the knowledge and skills to use, collect and share data responsibly; work through personal data, third-party sources and ethics in analysis; join a peer network with ongoing learning events; and use your certification to improve data ethics practice in projects and organisations.

Data management and governance pathway

Govern data properly across its lifecycle

From open data foundations through healthy ecosystems and strategic skills to advanced linked data publication.

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    Open data in a day
    Foundation Tutor-led

    Discover, use and describe the benefits of open data and how licensing and metadata support good governance.

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    Building a healthy data ecosystem
    Foundation Self-paced and tutor-led

    Map your data ecosystem, identify common barriers, and manage change and culture.

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    Strategic data skills
    Working Self-paced and tutor-led

    A practical exploration across the data lifecycle for non-data people, from data collection and bias evaluation through to storytelling.

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    Publishing open linked data
    Expert Tutor-led

    Publish open linked data using CSVW, vocabularies and linked data standards for interoperable publication.

Data in practice pathway

Make sense of data and apply AI

Analysis for decision-makers, machine learning fundamentals, and generative AI across the data lifecycle.

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    Organising and validating data
    Foundation Self-paced and tutor-led

    Organise and clean data, quality-check it, and improve utility and interoperability.

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    Telling stories with data
    Foundation Self-paced and tutor-led

    Produce and present data visualisations that deliver a connected, relevant narrative.

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    Empowering data innovation through machine learning and AI
    Working Tutor-led

    Non-technical introduction to machine learning and AI techniques applied to real data.

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    Generative AI: driving innovation in data practices
    Working Tutor-led

    Opportunities and risks of generative AI across the data lifecycle, with responsible-use framing.

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    Building fair and reliable AI models Coming soon
    Working Self-paced and tutor-led

    Apply predictive AI to real data, and detect and address bias and fairness issues in models and datasets.

    Coming soon

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