DCDJ’s mainstay is the Fellowship program, implemented together with local partner SEJEN. Ivorian youth apply to complete an 8-week data science training program at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée d’Abidjan (ENSEA) in Abidjan, then are placed in government organizations, NGOs and, health organizations working on HIV/AIDS to apply their skills.
Our solution
We collaborated with SBC4D to redevelop our entire training course series into a single online course that could be delivered remotely, in either English or French.
Learning outcomes for the course include:
- Understand, and have practical experience with, the structure and design of machine-readable data files.
- Use Excel to investigate and manipulate source data to learn its metadata, shape and robustness, and employ these methods to develop a structural metadata schema.
- Learn and apply a basic set of methods to restructure messy source data into machine-readable CSV files using Microsoft Excel.
- Learn, and have practical experience with writing, the basic syntax and approach to coding in Python.
- Integrate and apply methods from the core data analysis libraries of Numpy, Pandas and Matplotlib to investigate and manipulate source data.
- Perform techniques in analysis and coding, using the Whyqd data wrangling package, to create a structured, JSON-formatted method, for restructuring data into a standard schema.
Outcomes
We delivered our course remotely to DCDJ participants in October 2022, handing continuation of the project back to SBC4D.
