openwashdata academy

The mission of this community is to empower WASH professionals to engage with tools and workflows for open data and code. To fullfil this mission, we offer learning events that are free for anyone to participate in.

data science for openwashdata (ds4owd)

You can find all details about this course and how to sign-up for it here: https://ds4owd-001.github.io/website/

To participate in this course, you need:

to have a stable internet connection
to somewhat be connected to the greater Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector (yes, public health, solid waste management, global health engineering, and related topics also count)
to commit 10 * 2.5 hours to participate in Zoom calls
to commit another 2 hours/week for readings and additional exercises for practice
to identify a dataset of your own or your organisation that you are interested to share with the public
an openess to new ideas and workflows that disrupt current practice

This course is:

free
provides you with a certificate for successful completion
using exclusively tools that are free and open source
offers 1:1 coding support between lectures and beyond the course