We provide professional development to data managers and others who work with K-12 and post-secondary education data.
New Orleans Data Collaborative
Beginning in January 2021, The New Orleans Public Education Data Collaborative works to address challenges and barriers in New Orleans’ public education data landscape by bringing together data managers, analysts, researchers, and others who work with data from public schools across the city. As part of the collaborative, the network will share best practices, take part in professional development opportunities that build capacity at their organizations, and develop skills to better use and apply data and analytics in daily work at the school level.
Resources
Harvard Strategic Data Project Resources
Harvard University’s SDP program builds capacity among education researchers, data managers, and analysts. They have a wealth of resources available to help workers build data skills and data culture within their organizations.
OpenSDP is a github online community for sharing high quality education analytic tools including STATA and R code.
The Strategic Data Rubric helps organizations think through their data use and data culture.
The Toolkit for Effective Data Use provides a step-by-step tutorial to gathering, cleaning, and analyzing data and provides practice data and tools so you can work alongside the tutorial.
Google and Excel Cheat Sheets
Need help remembering functions and formulas in Excel and Google Sheets? Print them out and pin ‘em on the wall.
Trainings and Courses
Time to level up? A list of free courses and tutorials are listed below.
Excel VBA (2 hours)- Learn the basics of Excel’s programming language.
Google Sheets (5 hours) - Getting started with google sheets
Google Data Analytics Course (6 months) - A fully comprehensive course for those wanting to move into data analytics.
Google Data Studio - Introduction course to get you started with this data visualization tool.
Upcoming meetings
The NODC will begin in January 2021, with meetings on the last Thursday of every month. If you are interested in joining, please fill out this registration form or email us with any questions.