Software & Data
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What does this career involve?
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Work you might explore
- Building and improving digital tools
- Using data to investigate questions
- Testing systems and communicating findings
What skills can help?
- Programming foundations
- Data literacy
- Problem solving
Courses to explore
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Projects students can try
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Analyse an open dataset
Document and test a digital prototype
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