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Programme Schedule

National College of Ireland (NCI) has developed Data Bytes, a Transition Year programme that helps students understand Data Science, starting with the basics.

Week Location Topics Data Handling Life Cycle Stage Weekly Objectives
Week 1
Sept 29th (11 - 2)		 NCI IFSC Campus
Intro to the project, VLE Etc.
The story of Data
Brainstorming ideas
What constitutes data
Introduction to Ethics & data
Introduction Posing a Question Choose a topic for your analysis
Week 2
Oct 3rd to 9th		 Online
Understanding data & Creating Surveys
Selecting a public data set
Collecting data
Identifying a suitable public data set
Finalising a question
Week 3
Oct 10th to 16th		 Online
Importing data to excel
Preparing data
Analysing Data
Import data to excel
Clean and prepare the data
Week 4
Oct 20th (11 - 2)		 NCI IFSC Campus
Analysing Data
Creating charts in excel
Analysing Data
Analyse the data
Produce a series of charts from the analysis
Week 5
Oct 24th to 30th		 Online
Presenting data & telling a story with it
Infographics, Animation & Videos
Interpreting Data
Tell the story of your data using your medium of choice
Prepare your Team profile for the Showcase website
Week 6
Nov 7th to 13th		 NCI IFSC Campus Showcase Science Week Showcase

Please note, on-campus dates are subject to change.