openwashdata academy

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

🎓 data science for openwashdata - 002

We’ve just wrapped up the second iteration of the course, and we couldn’t be prouder of the 40+ graduates who sharpened their data science skills and earned their certification.

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📚 You need more info?

Find the course website here: https://ds4owd-002.github.io/website/

📊 You’re interested in some statistics from the first iteration?

Read Adriana’s blog post: https://openwashdata.org/pages/blog/posts/2025-07-07-ds4owd-001-analytics

🤔 Who can participate?

To participate in this course, you need to:

• be somewhat connected to the greater Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector (yes, public health, solid waste management, global health engineering, and related topics also count)
• commit 9 × 2.5 hours to participate in Zoom calls
• commit another 3 hours/week for readings and additional exercises for practice
• identify a dataset of your own or your organization that you’re interested in sharing with the public
• have an openness to new ideas and workflows that disrupt current practice

🎁 What do we offer?

This course is:

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

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