Skills Skills Skills
Tech Nation have procured data of every Northern English job advert from 2014-17, with the idea of exploring demand for digital skills. There are 7 million rows of data in the file, but don't let this daunt you at all - Tech Nation and ODI Leeds staff will be on hand to help with any data access requirements.
This is a very complex area, so we want to create some outputs that bring clarity to skills. There are two things we are trying to do:
- Understand how skills demand varies across the North of England
- Predict which skills are needed for Northern jobs in the future.
Number of skills by category
Visualisation created during the day.
Demand for digital and tech dominates the labour market
Blog post from Henri
Northern Digital Jobs Strategy: plugging the skills gap
Blog post from Henri
Forget North-South, here's the North-North divide
Blog post from Henri
Hack Day document
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Hackday running order
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Welcome. Arrive. Meet, greet, and coffee. |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Introductions Introduction and overview of the project and data |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Identifying challenges, themes etc |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Setting up working groups, start creating brilliant things |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | LUNCH |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Working on concepts, prototypes, etc |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Wrap up and discussion Final thoughts from the day, and discussion about what needs to happen next. |