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Understanding and Using Performance Data

Online
Free for local authority colleagues / £50 plus VAT
1.5 hours
10am 22/04/2026

Performance data allows you to understand the extent to which you are meeting the authority’s objectives and where you might need to improve.

3rd Party Provider
Royal Statistical Society

Identifying Trends and making Forecasts

Online
£510 +VAT
6 hours
9am 28/04/2026 - 1pm 29/04/2026

Those that don’t use statistical forecasting face higher costs and uncertainty when reality diverges from their plans. Those that do use statistical forecasting are able plan for the future much more effectively and efficiently.

3rd Party Provider
Coleg Cambria

Power BI Essentials

In-person
£125
6 hours
9am 7/5/2026

The course provides you with the necessary knowledge and tools to help you learn how to understand how to use data visualisation software

3rd Party Provider
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Interactive Visualisation in R

Online
£795 +VAT
12 hours
9:30am 11/05/2026 - 5pm 12/05/2026

This course will introduce two technologies that will fundamentally change your use of R for data presentation on the web: htmlwidgets and Shiny.

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Hearing from citizens: An introduction to designing and running surveys

Online
Free for local authority colleagues / £50 plus VAT
2.5 hours
10am 13/05/2026

Surveys are a great way to hear from lots of people quickly and cost-effectively. There are many types of survey. Which one you choose will depend on your purpose, the timescale for collecting the results, and the resources available.

3rd Party Provider
Royal Statistical Society

Spatial Data Analysis in R

Online
£510 +VAT
6 hours
1pm 19/05/2026 - 5pm 20/05/2026

As spatial data sets get larger, more sophisticated software needs to be harnessed for their analysis. R is now a widely used open source software platform for working with spatial data thanks to its powerful analysis and visualisation packages. 

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A beginners guide to using Microsoft Excel

Online
Free for local authority colleagues / £50 plus VAT
2.5 hours
10am 3/06/2026

This training course is designed to help you at the beginning of your journey with Microsoft Excel, helping you build confidence about how to store, cleanse and manage your data, ready for analysis or presentation.