Numeracy & Big Data / Technological & Digital Literacy

Definition

Awareness, confidence and competence to engage effectively and analyse numbers, measures and large volumes of data.

Being technologically literate and able to engage with systems in an effective, critical and ethical manner, e.g., Gen AI, hybrid work tools, to communicate, access information, solve problems and create content.

Essential resources

LinkedIn Learning courses

• Information on Statistics Courses on LinkedIn Learning
• Managing and Analysing Data in Excel (Office 365/Excel 2019)

Video

• What do we do with all this big data?

Websites

• Digital Skills Framework
• Solo Learn: learn to code
• University Digital Skills and Training

Additional resources

• Coursera digital footprint course (free)
• Crash course computer science (free)
• Data Camp (free/paid)
• Leetcode (free/paid)
• Code First Girls: employability and upskilling in the digital space (free)
• Developing your Data Skills Programme (free)
• Codebase
• AI in Society
• AI guidance for students from the University of Edinburgh
• Statistics: Unlocking the World of Data

Events

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