Dear readers,
Date: 28/08/2024
As we settle back into our routines after summer, we're showcasing our upcoming free data skills workshops and webinars designed to help public sector professionals understand and work with data to make informed decisions and build smart public services.
Each workshop is beginner-friendly and will deep-dive into an important topic using open-source data. You’ll follow a public sector use case demonstration that you can replicate in your own time to instil what you learn on the day using open-source data and open-source tools available in BDTI.
Here’s the running order for September:
04 Sep 2024: An introduction to geospatial analytics
In this workshop, we will introduce geospatial data, explain its relevance, and show you how to build interactive geospatial applications. In the first part of the workshop, we will learn about the importance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the different types of geospatial data (e.g. vector, raster, geo-temporal).
Then, we will demonstrate how to create an interactive data app using tools currently offered in BTDI to visualise different crime rates in selected European countries and cities.
11 Sep 2024: An introduction to statistics
In this workshop, we will introduce the fundamentals of statistics and emphasise its necessity for data analysis.
First, we will delve into univariate and bivariate descriptive statistics for a selected social phenomenon in the EU, exploring measures of central tendency, variability, shape distribution, covariance, and correlation. We will also cover various exploratory plots, including histograms, scatter plots, and boxplots.
In the second part of the workshop, we will introduce the concept of probability. We will explain different event types (i.e., the set of outcomes of an experiment) and probability calculations and explore more advanced topics like conditional probability and the Bayes Theorem. Throughout the use case, we will use tools currently offered in BTDI to implement the statistical measures.
18 Sep 2024: An introduction to graph analytics
This workshop will introduce key theoretical concepts about graphs, such as vertices, edges, degrees, and centrality. We will illustrate concepts through a use case using tools currently offered in BTDI.
The use case will explore visitor visa applications for different European Union countries, highlighting the different application and acceptance numbers. Short-stay visas are an important component of border control practices, and their analysis provides some insight into the relationships between different countries.
Coming in October and November:
- 02 Oct 2024: Dashboards for data visualisation: Analysing and presenting traffic accident insights
- 16 Oct 2024: Communicating complex datasets: Integrating real-time data for urban insights
- 06 Nov 2024: Harnessing climate data: Classification and predictive analytics for tourism
- 20 Nov 2024: Predictive modelling and real-time analysis: Real-time forecasting and monitoring of bicycle use