Whether you’re new to health data or looking to build on your existing skills, explore a selection of courses, tutorials, textbooks and communities to support your learning and development.
The resources cover a range of topics across health data science and data engineering and are hosted and delivered by external organisations and learning platforms.
Explore resources
For people who want to understand the health/data landscape before getting into technical skills.
- : Explore how digital technologies, data and innovation are transforming healthcare.
- : Learn the principles and approaches used to improve the quality and safety of healthcare.
- : Explore the principles, purpose and practice of public health.
For learning the fundamentals of working with and interpreting data.
- : Build practical data skills through interactive courses in Python, R, SQL and more.
- Learn how statistics and data analysis are applied to public health.
- Explore the fundamentals of statistical learning and its applications to data.
- : Learn key statistics concepts through short, accessible video lessons.
For learning Python programming and how it is used for data science.
- Learn the fundamentals of Python programming from the ground up (beginner).
- Learn how Python can be used to explore, analyse and work with data (intermediate).
- Explore how Python can be used to extract insights and patterns from text data (intermediate).
- : Connect with other NHS professionals using Python and share knowledge, resources and support.
For learning R for statistics, research and data analysis.
- : Learn how to use R to import, explore, visualise and analyse data.
- : Connect with R users across the NHS to share knowledge, resources and support.
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