Projects/School of Data

Vision
The School of Data brings together an active community of teachers and learners through free and openly licensed learning resources.

Why we're doing it
Data is becoming an important part of our everyday life. We want you to be able to utilize it to its full potential: when it becomes knowledge. A set of skills is needed to convert data into knowledge and actions. We are passionate about teaching these skills.

What we do
We teach data (literacy) skills through a variety of methods:


 * online courses
 * workshops
 * Data Expeditions
 * and more...

Further we collect inspiring data stories and how they were conceived and told on our blog.

Share your Ideas

 * Join us on our mailing list and share your ideas.
 * Follow and tweet to us @schoolofdata.
 * Tweet interesting Data Stories for our Data Roundup with the hashtag #DataRoundup
 * Join our IRC Channel: #school-of-data on irc.freenode.net or use the webchat
 * Join a Community Call

Blog
Did you do something interesting with data? Did you just build something you're proud of and want to share what you have learned? If yes: Write a guest post for the School of Data blog! Check out the blogging guidelines and contact us on [mailto:schoolofdata@okfn.org schoolofdata@okfn.org].

Write a Course Module
If you have knowledge on a specific data skill you would like to teach, why not write a new course module for the School of Data Courses? Contact us at [mailto:schoolofdata@okfn.org schoolofdata@okfn.org] and tell us about your ideas. We'll get you up and running!

Building the School of Data
We're currently working on creating a new School of Data website. We've grown out of Wordpress and would like to build a website that feeds our needs better. Help us building the site you want to have:


 * Review the Roles on the new website
 * Review, Add and Prioritize User Stories
 * Check out the School of Data on github and help us build it!