Data Literacy Skillscourse

Data Literacy Skillscourse is a free program that focuses on basic data skills. The goal of this course is to develop your growth mindset, deepen your critical thinking skills, make you confident in navigating spreadsheets and creating charts. This is perfect for those who have absolutely 0 background in data.

You will learn how to use Google Sheets in this course as a basic data analytics tool.

Currently, this course is exclusive to our partner FHMoms.


Skills

Asking the right questions
Creating charts (Bar, line, pie)
Navigating a spreadsheet
Measures of central tendency (Mean, median, mode)
Growth Mindset
Grit


Requirements

  1. Average-speed and stable internet connection
  2. Computer or laptop with webcam (Mobile phone is fine as long as you can access the apps)
  3. Earphones with microphone
  4. Apps: Google Slides, Google Sheets, Zoom, and Facebook


Commitment

Live online sessions:

  • Week 1: Mondays and Fridays (7:00 - 8:00 PM | GMT+8)
  • Week 2: Mondays and Fridays (7:00 - 8:00 PM | GMT+8)
  • Week 3: Mondays and Fridays (7:00 - 8:00 PM | GMT+8)
  • Week 4: Mondays and Fridays (7:00 - 8:00 PM | GMT+8)

Asynchronous activities: Done at your own time and pace

Small learning group meetings: Done at your group's agreed upon time and duration

Format
Cohort-based Course
Duration
4 weeks
Time
4-5 hrs / week
Mode
Mixed (Live online + asynchronous)
Mentors
3 course guides
Start Date
Cohort schedules can be seen when you join the waitlist

The Future You Want

Level up your existing freelancer, entrepreneur, and hobbyist skillset with data literacy skills! Going through this program puts you on the path for constant lifelong learning. But if you decide to pursue the Eskwelabs Mentorship track, you can use this as your starting point.

We pay our mentors Php 500/hr.  Work from home to support your dreams, stabilize your family's future, and empower the community you're part of.

9.74 / 10

Event CSAT

Our students are happy with their experience

₱500 / hr

Mentor rate

Our students are on track to become future Eskwelabs Mentors

9.9 / 10

Average NPS

Our students recommend others to enroll in this course

Create data projects you can readily show off

Data sprints or learning sprints are the building blocks of our bootcamps where you create your data projects.

In Data Literacy Skillscourse, we make the projects personal to you and also professional so you can share them with your future employers, clients, and mentees.

Museum of Me: Data in my Daily Life

Discover why and how you can be the most beautiful data project you'll ever work on!

Description

Apply goal-setting techniques when you visualize your ideal future self. You'll use this vision of your "future self" to create a data visualization of how you spend your time. After all, how you spend your days will impact your direction in life—closer to or away from your dream "future self."

KEY TOPICS

  • Growth Mindset
  • Grit
  • Goal-setting
  • Asking the right questions
  • Navigating a spreadsheet

Duration

1 week

Data Entry

Understand the importance of data cleaning and use it to be your most professional self.

Description

Roleplay as a Virtual Assistant applying for a Data Entry position. You'll be guided by a clear task list to ease you into this "Mission Possible"-themed project.

KEY TOPICS

  • Types of data
  • Data cleaning
  • Sorting and filtering data
  • Core descriptive functions
  • Cell reference

Duration

1 week

Dashboards

Dive deeper into the world of data analytics by tackling one of the most used and beloved tools for analysis: the dashboard.

Description

Roleplay as an employee of a university's Registrar's Office. You'll be filling up a partially complete dashboard and answering questions to test your understanding of the data that's captured and presented there.

KEY TOPICS

  • Writing captions and labels for charts and tables
  • The Basic Three: Line, bar, and pie charts
  • Design principles for charts
  • Pivot tables
  • Slicers

Duration

1 week

Reporting

Time to showcase what you've got! This final project is the culmination of all that you've learned—both in terms of soft skills and technical skills.

Description

The goal for this project's roleplay is that you're trying to get a promotion by wowing your audience with your report. For this challenge, you'll be editing and completing a partially done report as an expert Virtual Assistant.

KEY TOPICS

  • Graph Selection and Insights Pairing
  • Minto Pyramid
  • Executive Summaries
  • SMART Recommendations
  • Hypothesis Trees and 5 Whys Framework
  • Introduction to Statistics - Central Tendency, Range, Dispersion and Outliers

Duration

1 week

Who Our Learners Are

What graduates say

Application

Currently, this course is exclusive to our partner FHMoms. In the meantime, you can join the waitlist!

1. Online application

If you're an FHMoms community member, enroll here for free and it'll kickstart your application.

2. Welcome email

Wait for the official "Welcome email" from our team. This will inform you that you're officially enrolled. Everything you need to know about the program like schedules, topics, tools, and the course format will be answered there.

3. Orientation

Attend the orientation event. The date of this event will be included in the "Welcome email."