Do’s And Don'ts For Data Bootcamps

In October, a group of OCHA Humanitarian Affairs Officers (HAOs) from across our field offices gathered in The Hague for a weeklong ‘bootcamp’ on working with data. This crash course is one component of the Centre’s new Data Literacy Foundation Programme which runs for three months and includes remote training and mentoring for non-technical humanitarians.

As we saw in the results of our data skills survey, humanitarians are being asked to engage more with data and to use data to improve operational decision making. Unfortunately, if you are not working with data regularly, your data muscles are underdeveloped. Enter the data bootcamp — our version of data strength training.

Read more on Centre for Humanitarian Data.