nsw open data challenge: making links with data

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

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

Government & Nonprofit