Data Analytics – Skills Bootcamp for Employability

This is a great FREE bootcamp for young people, looking to help get onto the career ladder and look at a data analytics role

Skills around collecting, sorting and analysing data have never been in greater demand – the average salary for a data analyst in the UK is £55,000 (Talent.com). .

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Whether you’re just starting your career, or you’re hoping to change career paths, learning data analytics skills can be the key to unlocking new and rewarding career opportunities. A great way to achieve this is through Skills Bootcamps – part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.

Skills Bootcamps are free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and an offer of an interview with an employer upon completion. Learners may also be eligible for job placement in an entry-level data role upon successfully completing the bootcamp, such as data analyst.

What you’ll learn in this Skills Bootcamp

• Sorting and processing data using programming languages like Python and Pandas
• Data visualisation and reporting in tools like Matplotlib and Seaborn
• Drawing from and communicating key insights with data
• And much more

How is this Skills Bootcamp delivered?

We deliver our full curriculum online to give you the flexibility to learn from anywhere and at your own pace. A mix of experiential learning, coaching, technical mentorship and peer support help you gain confidence in data skills and quickly apply them in practice.

You benefit from the following to aid you in your learning journey:

• Expert lectures and instruction from world-class faculty
• Immediate feedback on exercises through our EDUKATE.AI data learning platform
• Engagement and support from peers through our online Knowledge Base forum

Safety and respectful learning environment notice: For the benefit of all participants and to ensure a safe and distraction-free learning environment, we kindly request that attendees participate in live sessions from a stationary location. Please refrain from attending sessions while walking, driving, or in any situation that might pose a safety risk or distract other learners. Your cooperation ensures a productive and respectful environment for all.

Programme schedule

The programme will last 14 weeks with 15-17 hours of study time per week. Your bootcamp includes 10 hours of live learning per week, and these sessions must be attended in order for your course to continue to be government funded.

The schedule (subject to minor changes) for each of the 14 weeks will follow the below structure beginning on Monday 23rd September.

Outside the schedule below, there will also be an induction session held on, which is designed to set you up for success on the programme:

What would make you a match

• Are based in either in Devon or Hampshire
• Are 19 years or older
• Have the right to live and work in the UK
• Have been living in the UK for at least 3 years
• Want to secure an entry-level data job after the Bootcamp
• Have a passion for learning the Python programming language and are keen to use Pandas and Matplotlib
• Already have an understanding of analysing data through more traditional methods such as Microsoft Excel
• Understand and can already explain the different types of popular data analysis techniques

Requirements

  

ELIGIBILITY