Welcome to the DataKirk
Preparing People for the Jobs of Tomorrow
Upcoming Events
You can find a list of our upcoming events below. If you are going to attend one of our sessions, please make sure to register prior!
DataKirk Activities
A round-up of current and upcoming courses
Fully Funded Training Opportunities for Housing & Social Care Staff
The Data Upskilling project will be providing a range of specific, fully funded qualifications to staff working within the Housing, health and social care sector.
The training opportunities is for those living and working in Edinburgh, Fife, Lothian or Scottish Border. The trainings available through the DataKirk are:
The training opportunities are fully funded by the DDI, led by the DataLab, working with local colleges and other partners. Please view this video for more information.
The aim of the data upskilling is to empower people working in the sector to develop new skills, enabling them to continue providing high-quality housing and social care services in an efficient and effective ways to people using their services.
For more information about fully funded training opportunities, or to sign up, please visit https://dataskillsforwork.com/dsc-application
BAMELYTICS (Cohort 2) - Every Thursday, 6.30pm - 9.30pm, from 30th September
A 15 week data upskilling course aimed at BAME parents from both migratory and lower socio-economic backgrounds whose employment or income has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. An employability pilot project run in conjunction with City Capital Partnership.
DATA CAREER TALKS - Friday 26th March, 6-8pm
Join us Friday 26th for our virtual Data Career Talks evening! Run in collaboration with Skills Development Scotland, this is an opportunity for our young learners to find out more about the career opportunities available to them and get inspired. Register here!
YOUTHLYTICS - Every Tuesday, 6-7.30pm, running from 2nd March to 6th April
An online course developed for our young learners in place of the weekly Data Literacy & Analytics Club, which is currently suspended due to COVID restrictions. Our learners aged 9-13 years focus on developing knowledge of data collection, sorting, analysis and visualisation. Our leaners aged 14 - 19 years build on those skills to develop real world applications by learning how Python and Javascript programming languages can be used to bring data science to life!
BAMELYTICS - Every Thursday, 6.30pm - 9.30pm, from 28th January
A 15 week data upskilling course aimed at BAME parents from both migratory and lower socio-economic backgrounds whose employment or income has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. An employability pilot project run in conjunction with City Capital Partnership. Register for the event here!
STEM Community Education Training - starting March 2021
The DataKirk Community STEM Project provides a learner led but supportive atmosphere, enabling students to fill-in gaps in their learning by consolidating and strengthening their knowledge and understanding across different SQA STEM subjects. The project is delivered via one-to-one virtual tutoring support, focusing on pupils between S1 – S6 from migrant backgrounds. Find out more here!
Data Career Fair - 15th April, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Meet the experts! DataKirk, in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council, will be hosting a Data Career Fair. The program is designed, in conjunction with our partners, to propel and help our learners to get a role in the world of data science.
Whether upskilling or looking to change career, we have lots of top tips as to how you can make the most of your data skills. Your data skills are a major life investment and the fair will provide helpful hints to make the most of your data upskilling and advance your marketability and employability. We have lots of employability support for you including CV MOT, Meet the Data Mentors and Mock Interviews to prepare our data enthusiasts for data job opportunities. Register for the event here!
Data Skills for Housing Professionals - request for feedback!
The DataKirk want to hear from housing professionals! This survey, combined with our further research, will help us define the data skills needs of housing professionals and how they are currently being served.
Our objective is to define a data skills strategy that supports the housing and homeless sectors and to identify further opportunities for our organisation to develop the data upskilling of housing professionals into housing data analysis roles.
This is your opportunity to share your views on the data skills needs and provisions of the housing industry. All responses will be aggregated anonymously, should we wish to quote a specific source later we will seek permission from the author.
The Data Upskilling project will be providing a range of specific, fully funded qualifications to staff working within the Housing, health and social care sector.
The training opportunities is for those living and working in Edinburgh, Fife, Lothian or Scottish Border. The trainings available through the DataKirk are:
- Managing and analysing data with Excel and Power BI
- Fundamental of Housing Analytics
- Tenant Insights
- Data Science for Housing
The training opportunities are fully funded by the DDI, led by the DataLab, working with local colleges and other partners. Please view this video for more information.
The aim of the data upskilling is to empower people working in the sector to develop new skills, enabling them to continue providing high-quality housing and social care services in an efficient and effective ways to people using their services.
For more information about fully funded training opportunities, or to sign up, please visit https://dataskillsforwork.com/dsc-application
BAMELYTICS (Cohort 2) - Every Thursday, 6.30pm - 9.30pm, from 30th September
A 15 week data upskilling course aimed at BAME parents from both migratory and lower socio-economic backgrounds whose employment or income has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. An employability pilot project run in conjunction with City Capital Partnership.
DATA CAREER TALKS - Friday 26th March, 6-8pm
Join us Friday 26th for our virtual Data Career Talks evening! Run in collaboration with Skills Development Scotland, this is an opportunity for our young learners to find out more about the career opportunities available to them and get inspired. Register here!
YOUTHLYTICS - Every Tuesday, 6-7.30pm, running from 2nd March to 6th April
An online course developed for our young learners in place of the weekly Data Literacy & Analytics Club, which is currently suspended due to COVID restrictions. Our learners aged 9-13 years focus on developing knowledge of data collection, sorting, analysis and visualisation. Our leaners aged 14 - 19 years build on those skills to develop real world applications by learning how Python and Javascript programming languages can be used to bring data science to life!
BAMELYTICS - Every Thursday, 6.30pm - 9.30pm, from 28th January
A 15 week data upskilling course aimed at BAME parents from both migratory and lower socio-economic backgrounds whose employment or income has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. An employability pilot project run in conjunction with City Capital Partnership. Register for the event here!
STEM Community Education Training - starting March 2021
The DataKirk Community STEM Project provides a learner led but supportive atmosphere, enabling students to fill-in gaps in their learning by consolidating and strengthening their knowledge and understanding across different SQA STEM subjects. The project is delivered via one-to-one virtual tutoring support, focusing on pupils between S1 – S6 from migrant backgrounds. Find out more here!
Data Career Fair - 15th April, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Meet the experts! DataKirk, in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council, will be hosting a Data Career Fair. The program is designed, in conjunction with our partners, to propel and help our learners to get a role in the world of data science.
Whether upskilling or looking to change career, we have lots of top tips as to how you can make the most of your data skills. Your data skills are a major life investment and the fair will provide helpful hints to make the most of your data upskilling and advance your marketability and employability. We have lots of employability support for you including CV MOT, Meet the Data Mentors and Mock Interviews to prepare our data enthusiasts for data job opportunities. Register for the event here!
Data Skills for Housing Professionals - request for feedback!
The DataKirk want to hear from housing professionals! This survey, combined with our further research, will help us define the data skills needs of housing professionals and how they are currently being served.
Our objective is to define a data skills strategy that supports the housing and homeless sectors and to identify further opportunities for our organisation to develop the data upskilling of housing professionals into housing data analysis roles.
This is your opportunity to share your views on the data skills needs and provisions of the housing industry. All responses will be aggregated anonymously, should we wish to quote a specific source later we will seek permission from the author.
Update from DataKirk
DataKirk response to COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis
On 4th January 2021, the Scottish government announced school closures for a second time to help curb the spread of Covid-19. Schools will begin a phased return from 22nd February.
DataKirk has taken the decision to suspend all face to face activities until after this date. We are looking at ways to supplement the missed sessions later in the year with activities such as spring/summer revision days. We know face-to-face sessions are important for our learners, and we intend to resume them as soon as it is safe to do so.
We have been officially approved by The National Tutoring Programme to deliver tutoring to pupils at home. We piloted our home-based approach as part of a national evaluation of online tutoring delivery in 2020.
It's our ambition to continue as many virtual learning programmes as possible during lockdown to support our learners where they need it most. We know that every hour of virtual learning delivered will make a big difference to the young people we help. We are consulting with our learners and mentors to discuss how to improve our virtual learning during this new lockdown.
Our tutoring will be needed now more than ever before, to help make up for the time lost. If you know someone that you think would be interested in volunteering to help us, please encourage them to fill out a mentor registration form and join the DataKirk team!
DataKirk has taken the decision to suspend all face to face activities until after this date. We are looking at ways to supplement the missed sessions later in the year with activities such as spring/summer revision days. We know face-to-face sessions are important for our learners, and we intend to resume them as soon as it is safe to do so.
We have been officially approved by The National Tutoring Programme to deliver tutoring to pupils at home. We piloted our home-based approach as part of a national evaluation of online tutoring delivery in 2020.
It's our ambition to continue as many virtual learning programmes as possible during lockdown to support our learners where they need it most. We know that every hour of virtual learning delivered will make a big difference to the young people we help. We are consulting with our learners and mentors to discuss how to improve our virtual learning during this new lockdown.
Our tutoring will be needed now more than ever before, to help make up for the time lost. If you know someone that you think would be interested in volunteering to help us, please encourage them to fill out a mentor registration form and join the DataKirk team!
Christmas Message from DataKirk
DataKirk will close for the year on 22nd December and resume 12th January 2021
Compliments of season to all the DataKirk family and our partners!
On behalf of DataKirk Management, we wish you and your family a heart-warming, relaxing, fantastic Christmas holiday. Christmas is a season of joy and thanksgiving; therefore, we would like to express our gratitude for our learners, our mentors for their commitment, and to our partners for the great support through 2020. This year has been successful for the DataKirk despite the COVID-19 challenges and we couldn’t have achieved this without you!
This is a great time to show appreciation to all our learners, mentors, partners, and management including the BOT for their commitment and dedication throughout 2020. We have put together a DataKirk Christmas Winter Festival on 22nd of December, to celebrate one another. We believe the program will help to inspire both our learners and mentors for the coming new year.
In 2021, we have exciting plans and programs, and we will be starting an employability project and STEM Community Education Tutoring in January 2021. We hope that the holiday period will be relaxing and provides an opportunity to get refreshed for the challenges of the coming year.
We are happy to inform you that DataKirk will be closing 2020 activities on 23rd December and we will resume back on Tuesday of 12th January 2012.
We wish you all merry Christmas and a glorious New year
Chuks Ododo
For and On behalf of the DataKirk SCIO
On behalf of DataKirk Management, we wish you and your family a heart-warming, relaxing, fantastic Christmas holiday. Christmas is a season of joy and thanksgiving; therefore, we would like to express our gratitude for our learners, our mentors for their commitment, and to our partners for the great support through 2020. This year has been successful for the DataKirk despite the COVID-19 challenges and we couldn’t have achieved this without you!
This is a great time to show appreciation to all our learners, mentors, partners, and management including the BOT for their commitment and dedication throughout 2020. We have put together a DataKirk Christmas Winter Festival on 22nd of December, to celebrate one another. We believe the program will help to inspire both our learners and mentors for the coming new year.
In 2021, we have exciting plans and programs, and we will be starting an employability project and STEM Community Education Tutoring in January 2021. We hope that the holiday period will be relaxing and provides an opportunity to get refreshed for the challenges of the coming year.
We are happy to inform you that DataKirk will be closing 2020 activities on 23rd December and we will resume back on Tuesday of 12th January 2012.
We wish you all merry Christmas and a glorious New year
Chuks Ododo
For and On behalf of the DataKirk SCIO
Data Literacy & Analytics Club for 9-19yrs
Presenting the Data Science Awareness Workshop Series
While we are still unable to restart our in person youth club, we have put together a series of talks for our learners from professionals within the industry.
Join us every second Tuesday, 6-7pm, for our virtual presentations, covering topics such as the path to a career in data science, data visualisation awareness, and a day in the life of a data scientist.
To sign up, please email info@thedatakirk.org.uk
Join us every second Tuesday, 6-7pm, for our virtual presentations, covering topics such as the path to a career in data science, data visualisation awareness, and a day in the life of a data scientist.
To sign up, please email info@thedatakirk.org.uk
Data Literacy & Analytics Club for 9-19yrs
NOTICE: SUMMER HOLIDAY PROVISION
The DataKirk's weekly club is now on break for the summer period and will recommence on Tuesday, 8th September 2020.
While we all take a well deserved break, we would encourage our learners to continue engaging with the learning materials on Google Classrooms to further reinforce data literacy. You can find tutorials for both our younger and older learner groups either on our YouTube channel or on the new Learning Resources section of our website.
Chuks and Fash are available to support any learners who may need help during the break. To get in touch please email us on info@thedatakirk.org.uk.
We would like to thank all of you for your support in our first year - it has been great to see the engagement from our members with the curriculum that our mentors have built. We wish all our learners, parents and guardians a relaxing summer holidays after all the hard work over the last six months.
Best Regards,
Chuks Ododo (on behalf of DataKirk)
While we all take a well deserved break, we would encourage our learners to continue engaging with the learning materials on Google Classrooms to further reinforce data literacy. You can find tutorials for both our younger and older learner groups either on our YouTube channel or on the new Learning Resources section of our website.
Chuks and Fash are available to support any learners who may need help during the break. To get in touch please email us on info@thedatakirk.org.uk.
We would like to thank all of you for your support in our first year - it has been great to see the engagement from our members with the curriculum that our mentors have built. We wish all our learners, parents and guardians a relaxing summer holidays after all the hard work over the last six months.
Best Regards,
Chuks Ododo (on behalf of DataKirk)
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Statement regarding the ongoing provision of DataKirk during the Covid-19 pandemic:
We fully understand the impact school closures are having on families due to the current Coronavirus situation. Therefore, we are moving the teaching of our data literacy club online and are working hard to ensure lesson materials are put online by end of the March so that weekly session can resume 7th April.
As part of our commitment to empowering data enthusiasts with data literacy and analytics skills, we are introducing them to the use of Google classroom, where all the learning materials will be available online.
Each learner will have a unique identification number and email account to enable access to Google Classroom. Learners can access Google Classroom 24/7 on the web or via the Android and iOS Google Classroom mobile apps.
We would encourage parents or guardians to include their email with their children's account, which will give them access to the weekly task, course materials and enable them to support and monitor progress.
In view of the above, we would like the parents/guardians to complete a new permission form via this link. This is for safeguarding and compliance purposes!
If your child should have problem remembering their password, please contact the Volunteer Program Manager, Hettie Baker, via henrietta.baker@thedatakirk.org.uk to reset it.
Further information on the online weekly data literacy club will be communicated to you shortly.
Best Regards
Chuks Ododo
For and on behalf of The DataKirk
We fully understand the impact school closures are having on families due to the current Coronavirus situation. Therefore, we are moving the teaching of our data literacy club online and are working hard to ensure lesson materials are put online by end of the March so that weekly session can resume 7th April.
As part of our commitment to empowering data enthusiasts with data literacy and analytics skills, we are introducing them to the use of Google classroom, where all the learning materials will be available online.
Each learner will have a unique identification number and email account to enable access to Google Classroom. Learners can access Google Classroom 24/7 on the web or via the Android and iOS Google Classroom mobile apps.
We would encourage parents or guardians to include their email with their children's account, which will give them access to the weekly task, course materials and enable them to support and monitor progress.
In view of the above, we would like the parents/guardians to complete a new permission form via this link. This is for safeguarding and compliance purposes!
If your child should have problem remembering their password, please contact the Volunteer Program Manager, Hettie Baker, via henrietta.baker@thedatakirk.org.uk to reset it.
Further information on the online weekly data literacy club will be communicated to you shortly.
Best Regards
Chuks Ododo
For and on behalf of The DataKirk
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The DataKirk Club:
We meet at Innovation Center, Tynecastle Stadium (HMFC),
Edinburgh, EH11 2NL (entrance on McLeod Street)
Every Tuesday 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
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Registered Address:
9 Walkers Wynd, Edinburgh EH14 2TD
Tel:(+44) 07792 012 713 | SC049344
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© Copyright The DataKirk
We meet at Innovation Center, Tynecastle Stadium (HMFC),
Edinburgh, EH11 2NL (entrance on McLeod Street)
Every Tuesday 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
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Registered Address:
9 Walkers Wynd, Edinburgh EH14 2TD
Tel:(+44) 07792 012 713 | SC049344
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© Copyright The DataKirk