a statement of support from your line manager, Head of Profession or equivalent.

an explanation of what you hope to gain from taking part in the Accelerator.Some coding experience would be beneficial, however successful applicants will receive access to analytical and data science courses provided by the Analysis Function and the ONS Data Science Campus to support them with their project work. you can spend one day per week for three months working on your project.you have access to the data youвЂ™ll need for your project.your project tackles a current issue in your business area.Your line manager and a senior manager (usually a Head of Profession or equivalent) must agree that: We will provide help and guidance for effective remote mentoring and we will facilitate virtual networking across the Accelerator community. You will spend one day per week working on your project and agree your project schedule with your mentor. The Accelerator is being delivered as a remote mentoring programme. be assigned a mentor with experience in data science or data visualisation for the duration of your project and benefit from peer support from other participants in your cohort.commit to spending one day a week on your project, which forms your protected time (an important benefit of the programme).work on a data science or data visualisation project, chosen by you, over three months.The Accelerator is delivered by the Office for National StatisticsвЂ™ (ONS), Data Science Campus on behalf of the Government Data Science Partnership (GDSP) and is open to UK public sector employees including central and local government. The Data Visualisation Accelerator was launched in partnership with the Analysis Function in June 2021 in response to an increasing demand for mentoring on data visualisation projects. The Data Science Accelerator has given analysts in the public sector opportunities to develop their data science skills through project-based mentoring since 2015. The programmes will run fromВ Thursday 8 September to Thursday 24 November 2022. Applications for the Data Science and Data Visualisation Programmes on Monday 13 June and close on Thursday 7 July 2022.

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