nsw open data challenge: making links with data
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Making Links with Data: a Data Literacy Program
Stream 1: Create Data Champions
How: Open Data sabbatical
expert led and supported, immersive, intense, and finite
Purpose; BYOD(ata)
to solve a problem using the agency’s own data sets and others learn basic coding replicate experience effect broader change data skills
Outcome:
• Permanent resource within the agency with subject matter expertise
• Ongoing Open Data expertise
• Data champion
Stream 2 Open Data for everyone
How:
Develop a agency focused Data Literacy Framework
• Purpose to increase data literacy across the agency
• Gamify, Flexible scalable to agency needs,
• interactive
• Using the agency’s own data
Outcomes:
• Why Open Data is important
• Basic visualisation skills
• Working understanding of APIs
• Knowledge of data standards