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Data Skills Projects

Ensure your business meets its full data science and AI potential

Use your own data in combination with our technical team's expertise to solve your business challenges.

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What is a Data Skills Project?

A Data Skills Project is an intensive and collaborative experience where your team solves real business challenges using AI and data science. Guided by the National Innovation Centre for Data's expert data scientists, you define the project, and we help you deliver it. Throughout the process, your team receives hands-on, tailored tutorials designed to develop essential AI and data skills.

Whether you’re seeking new insights to enhance decision-making or looking to create profitable data-driven products and services, a Data Skills Project helps unlock your business's data potential. By the end, your team will be equipped with the knowledge and confidence to identify and pursue future opportunities in AI and data science, ensuring lasting value and continued growth.

Key Features

Data Skills Project Key Features

Who can benefit from a Data Skills Project?

This type of project is perfect for businesses of all shapes, sizes and sectors looking to tackle specific challenges faced by their business.

The unique technical upskilling offered as part of these projects, ensures your team gains the confidence and expertise to drive future projects, delivering lasting positive impact for your business.

Getting you ready to launch your Data Skills Project

All of our projects begin with a Project Success Workshop for relevant business and technical members of your organisation. With our expert Project Success Team, you will focus down on the business opportunity to define, validate and align your data science and AI project.

Find out more about our Project Success Workshop.

Why should you choose a Data Skills Project?

A Data Skills Project is an investment in both your current challenges and your team’s future success. We begin by helping you validate and define your project goals. Then, through weekly sessions, our expert data scientists mentor your staff, guiding them through each stage of the project. This hands-on, tailored learning experience equips your team with the exact skills needed to deliver results.

Our approach ensures your business not only solves immediate challenges but also builds lasting data capabilities that drive ongoing innovation and growth.

What should you expect from a Data Skills Project?

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What does your business need to commit to a Data Skills Project?

Data Skills Project Business Commitment

Why choose the National Innovation Centre for Data for a Data Skills Project?

Working with our expert team will provide you with success through:

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Our team has successfully completed over 90 Data Skills Projects with organisations of all sizes, across a wide range of sectors.

Independent economic analysis has shown that, on average, each project delivers £1M cumulative additional GVA.

Hear from businesses we've worked with about their experiences working with our data science and AI experts on their Data Skills Projects.

  • With the NICD team, we managed to progress faster than we could ever do in-house. That gave us a better perspective on how to move forward. I would definitely recommend carrying out a project with the team at NICD to all companies, especially those that have a specific R&D with a limited in-house team.
    Rojin Yarahmadi [Co-Founder] - PolyBox
  • We have closely worked with a team from NICD on a challenging problem on our offshore wind turbines. Their expertise in data science and project management has accelerated the development of a new machine learning model ready to be implemented on our assets. At the same time our data science team's skills and workflow were improved, which can be further used in other projects internally.
    Thibaut Forest [Data Scientist] - Equinor
  • The National Innovation Centre for Data were invaluable in helping us establish a solid foundation of knowledge of different types of AI on which to base our AI assurance project. The working relationship we have developed with them is friendly but also highly effective and our project would not have been able to deliver as it has so far without their support.
    Adam Byfield [Principal Technical Assurance Specialist] - NHS England
  • Through the collaboration and skills transferred I took on more of a role of a data scientist, being able to work with and clean data. The understanding of data science that the National Innovation Centre for Data gave me really helped me to introduce more complex ideas [to the team at Kinewell]. The team were dynamic and flexible, and always very quick to respond. It made the whole project feel more fun and collaborative.
    Steven Ziolkowski [R&D and Consultant Engineer] - Kinewell
  • I would absolutely recommend them (National Innovation Centre for Data) to anyone, especially businesses that can benefit from data science skills. If you think your work can’t benefit from data science skills, you've not thought about it enough!
    Ben Carroll [Research, Technology and Innovation Engineer] - Delkia.

Could one of our other services be better suited to your organisation's data needs?

We understand businesses may be at different points in their journey's.

In some cases you may need to carry out Project Success Workshop first, or a Discovery Project may be more suited to your needs and time commitments.

We can help you to decide the best way to move forward to achieve your business goals.

Find out more about our Product offerings:

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Project Success Workshop

A one-day, intensive session designed to help your organisation align and validate your data science project.

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Discovery Projects

The focus of these projects is for our expert Data Scientists to test innovation ideas for feasiblity and develop a list of technology, knowledge and capabilities required for success.

Get started by telling us more about your business challenge and we'll be in touch to organise an initial meeting.

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