Our primary training objective is to provide foundational and interdisciplinary training that promotes a more data-literate Canada, and better prepare citizens to participate meaningfully in our rapidly changing world.

Through our members’ teaching and training experience, we offer training in introductory and advanced data literacy, research data management, advanced statistical methods, web scraping, basic programming, and data visualization. Each of these training courses can be tailored to target students, faculty members, professionals, and others.

Our members’ expertise also positions the Institute to offer fee-based consulting services for data analysis, research design, data communication, knowledge mobilization, and data management. Consulting services will be available to help researchers in all stages of their projects.

During our initial start-up phase, we aim to create:

  • for-credit courses on data literacy to improve student data literacy skills;
  • Develop data literacy professional development training for professionals in industry and public service;
  • Provide workshops, seminars, and consulting services to support researchers (and their students) in addressing their data-related research needs (e.g., data management and advanced analyses).

Contact us to discover how we can help you.