Accelerator programme – mentors page
Guest blog: Breaking into the world of data science with the Accelerator programme
In this guest blog, Helen Lankester, offers insights into her participation in the Accelerator programme, highlighting the impact and career growth she had through her involvement in the programme.
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Data Science and Data Visualisation Accelerator
Calling all UK public sector analysts interested in developing data science and data visualisation skills. The Autumn 2023 cohort of the Accelerator is now open for applications!
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This page contains some frequently asked questions about the Data Science and Data Visualisation Accelerator programme.
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International Data Science Accelerator Programme
The Data Science Campus has designed the International Data Science Accelerator mentoring programme in collaboration with the United Nations (UN) Big Data Task Team
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Join the Accelerator movement in 2023
Interested in the Data Science and Data Visualisation Accelerator? Applications for both programmes are opening soon. Read more in this blog post.
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What is the International Data Science Accelerator Programme?
The Data Science Campus has designed the International Data Science Accelerator mentoring programme in collaboration with the United Nations (UN) Big Data Task Team on Training, Competencies and Capacity Development.
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International Accelerator Programme – Call for mentors
We are excited to be able to offer this opportunity and we hope the information provided will inspire you to join our virtual international data science mentorship programme. We look forward to hearing from you.
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International Accelerator Programme – Call for mentees
This is a project based mentoring programme and as a mentee you’ll need to submit a data science project on which you’ll potentially collaborate with a designated mentor.
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Published on 1 July 2022 The Data Science Accelerator is a capability-building programme which gives analysts from across the public…
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Examples of International Data Science Accelerator projects
Here are some examples of projects from the first cohort of the International Data Science Accelerator programme, including testimonials from mentors and mentees.
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Mapping beaches with the Data Science Accelerator Programme
Data Science Accelerator mentee Ciaran Evans from the UK Hydrographic Office attempts to answer the question “What is the beach made of?”
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Data Science Accelerator Programme
Across the public sector, analysts can benefit from the Data Science Accelerator, which opened for a new cohort of applications this week.
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Are you ready for One Big Thing?
We are delighted to share that we are supporting Cabinet Office’s new annual training initiative, One Big Thing. This year, the focus is on data upskilling!
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How the cross-public sector data science community can support your career
In this blog post, we are sharing more about what is available through the community to support you in your career, including the our brand-new Living Library.
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Improving career opportunities for Black data scientists in the UK
This summer, the Campus hosted two interns as part of the HDR UK’s Black Internship Programme. Read more about their experience, embedded in real-life data science projects within our teams.
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The Data Science Campus – five years of data science for public good
On 27 March 2017, with an audience of UK and international data science leaders from across the public, private and academic sectors, a team of 8, some brilliant presentations, and a lot of excitement, the Data Science Campus was launched. 5 years later, Louisa Nolan shares what have we learned along the way.
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Launching the Public Sector Data Science Graduate Programme 2022 to 2024
We are delighted to launch the Public Sector Data Science Graduate Programme for 2022 to 2024, with applications open until 24 March 2022.
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Technical Report: Project Mertz—novel use of historical RAF flight safety records
Part of our mission at the Data Science Campus (DSC) is to build data science capability across the public sector. In this project, which grew out of our Data Science Accelerator programme, we worked with the Royal Air Force (RAF) to help upskill their staff in the Python programming language and natural language processing (NLP) methods.
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Mentoring without borders – growing data science skills internationally
The International Data Science Accelerator Programme opened for its’ first applicants on 31 January. We spoke to Fatima Al Taharhwa (Department of Statistics, Jordan) and her mentor Hatem El Sherif (Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre, United Arab Emirates), who took part in the pilot programme.
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Visualising in pairs – growing data visualisation skills through mentoring
Applications for the Data Visualisation Accelerator are open until 11 February 2022. We hear how a mentor and mentee from the first cohort of the programme and how they, and their organisations benefitted.
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How effective mentoring relationships are growing data science skills and capacity
The relationship between the mentor and mentee is vital to successful outcomes on the Data Science Accelerator programme. Daniel O’Callaghan (Forestry Commission) and Sam Taylor (DWP) talk about their relationship that helped to deliver a successful project.
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Item Lead Discussion points 1 Introductions Tom Smith Tom welcomed members to the meeting of the Advisory Board. He…
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Boost your data science and visualisation skills in 2022!
The Data Science and Data Visualisation Accelerator mentoring programmes will open for applications in January 2022.
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500 not out – building data science capacity for the future
The Campus has exceeded a target to train 500 public sector analysts in data science by 2021. The target was originally set in 2018, and recently confirmed in the National Data Strategy.
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Item Lead Discussion points 1 Introductions Tom Smith 1.1 Tom Smith welcomed Members to the sixth meeting of the…
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The hard reality of being a learning organisation
We conducted a lessons learned exercise to help understand the challenges faced by our teams during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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International Programmes Team
Our International programme leads and influences the role of data science, ensuring that it becomes an integral component of a Global Statistical System that works for all National Statistics Organisations (NSO).
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On International Day of Girls in ICT 2020, Harriet Sands talks about her journey into data science, what it’s like to work as a data scientist in government and how she would encourage a younger version of herself to get in to data science.
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Data science capability for Africa
The Campus is supporting colleagues in statistical organisations across the world to take advantage of new data and techniques in their work.
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The month that was – June 2018
So, June was notable for (i) more uninterrupted sunshine than I can remember in the UK; (ii) the short-lived excitement…
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The month that was – May 2018
Where do the days go? It’s already time for my latest update – providing an overview of what happened in the…
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Learning and development
The Data Science Campus is at the heart of leading-edge data science skills building with public sector bodies in the UK and abroad.
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The month that was – February 2018 (plus a bit)
Here’s our latest monthly update for the Data Science Campus, covering February 2018. We’ve taken the liberty of stretching the…
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Following a brief midwinter break, here is our bumper two-month update, covering December 2017 and January 2018. The Campus continues…
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The month that was – November 2017
Here’s our update for November, the month when the Campus won an award and had the privilege of welcoming numerous…
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The month that was – October 2017
This is our monthly update for October 2017 – one of a series of regular snapshots that highlight some of…
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The month that was – September 2017
This is our monthly update for September – one of a series of regular snapshots on what we’ve been doing…
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The month that was – August 2017
Welcome to “the month that was”, providing you with a snapshot of what we’ve been doing this month to support…
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The first 100 days
It is 100 days since the Data Science Campus officially opened our doors to help the Office for National Statistics…
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Hi, I am Steven Hopkins, a Data Scientist in the Data Science Campus (DSC) which was officially opened last week,…
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