{"id":86,"date":"2014-08-24T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/?p=86"},"modified":"2014-11-11T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:23:52","slug":"86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/2014\/08\/24\/86\/","title":{"rendered":"Gain the advantage: Study online for a recognised qualification in Digital Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/studying\/postgraduate\/degrees?id=854&amp;cw_xml=details.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/files\/2014\/08\/postgrad-banner-1192.gif\" alt=\"postgrad-banner-1192\" width=\"1192\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 300;color: #284159\"><a style=\"color: #0088cc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/technology\/research\/hype-cycles\/\">Contemporary interest in big data, data science and large-scale digital research<\/a>\u00a0presents an opportunity for researchers and practitioners alike. \u00a0National and global strategy on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0088cc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Topics\/Economy\/digital\/digitalservices\/datamanagement\/dmbvfs\/dmbvfspdf\">gearing up for the challenges of big data<\/a>\u00a0means there has never been a better time for professional development. <span style=\"color: #993366\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/studying\/postgraduate\/degrees?id=854&amp;cw_xml=details.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993366\">Join us<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"lead\">&#8220;Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.&#8221; (Gartner Predictions)<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #31303d\">This Postgraduate Certificate is\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0088cc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sps.ed.ac.uk\/gradschool\/prospective\/distance_learning\/programmes\/digital_research_challenges\/student_profiles\">aimed at<\/a>\u00a0commissioners, coordinators and users of digital research in business, policy-making and the third sector, including digital marketing and analytical services officers. The PGCert comprises a suite of courses that together provide the critical understanding and skills needed to make best use of digital research findings, with a particular focus on social media research, web 2.0 data and their synergies with publicly available \u2018open\u2019 administrative datasets. Based on the latest research into the social and economic influences on how digital research is being developed and used, this PGCert is designed both for novices and for more experienced professionals who need to maintain a critical appreciation of the fast moving field of digital research.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"lead\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen too many organisations give up on finding answers in complex data; this is the first award-bearing programme that helps people without a data science background to transform their ability to share information and make it easily accessible.&#8221; Duncan Chapple, Managing Director, Kea Company.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"color: #808080 !important\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Please note that the deadline for\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993366\"><a style=\"color: #084c9e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/studying\/postgraduate\/degrees?id=854&amp;cw_xml=details.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993366\">applications<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0for 2014\/15 entry is the\u00a0is the end of December 2014 for a January 2015 start.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/files\/2014\/07\/rob-proctor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/files\/2014\/07\/rob-proctor.jpg\" alt=\"rob proctor\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/files\/2014\/07\/rob-proctor.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/files\/2014\/07\/rob-proctor-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/files\/2014\/07\/rob-proctor-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/files\/2014\/07\/rob-proctor-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/files\/2014\/07\/rob-proctor-357x268.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary interest in big data, data science and large-scale digital research\u00a0presents an opportunity for researchers and practitioners alike. \u00a0National and global strategy on\u00a0gearing up for the challenges of big data\u00a0means there has never been a better time for professional development. Join us. &#8220;Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/2014\/08\/24\/86\/\">&#8230;Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/digistis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}