'Data is Beautiful' took place on 25th February 2021.

'Making sense of coronavirus data with your learners' took place on 9th December 2020.

Physical Fitness and the Pandemic: what the data can tell your learners took place on 14th December 2020 and explores what data tells us about the importance of physical activity for learners during the pandemic.

This project, funded by Skills Development Scotland, will undertake a feasibility study to understand if the school computing science curriculum can be delivered online effectively and sustainably with a focus on National Progression Awards in Cyber Security & Data Science.

This DataLab funded project will work with Effini to deliver a set of training materials around the learning outcomes of two national qualifications, the National Progression Award (NPA) in Data Science and the Professional Development Award (PDA) in Data Science. They will be designed to support online, in person, and self-directed learning that is short-term, flexible and modularised.

Tune Into Data took place on 27th January 2021.

The aim of this Skills Development Scotland funded project is to process the Key Stage 1- 4  curriculum materials developed by the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) from the Teach Computing website and the accompanying NCCE video lessons to tag them with the relevant Scottish curriculum outcomes where appropriate.

Digital and data literacy: Comparing children’s understanding of data and online privacy with experts’ and advocates’ data literacy practices. If you missed Dr Gianfranco Polizzi, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham, speaking on the 20th January, you can now catch up with the seminar recording.

On 4th Nov we ran our first Data Skills Live Lesson where 350 learners came together from 15 Scottish local authorities to defend the rhino and learn some new data skills in the process.