How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NOCN has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NOCN awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NOCN.
The NOCN Level 3 Certificate for Data Technicians equips learners with skills in data science, data handling and manipulation in various sectors, preparing them for roles as Data Technicians or for further learning in the subject.
These are the units NOCN registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with NOCN. It does the teaching and the mapping. NOCN sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
Free first step
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Data Engineering and Big Data Handling Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand data engineering principles and big data processing.
Data Visualisation Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Create effective data visualisations.
Introduction to Data Science Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of Data Science.
Introduction to Python Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate basic Python programming skills.
Statistical Modelling Real unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Apply statistical models to data sets.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Assist in developing data visualisations
- Standard
Build and implement data processing systems
- Standard
Cleanse Data to Resolve Quality Issues
- Standard
Lead the Delivery of the Data Science Capability, Strategy and Framework
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 10 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Data Engineering Assistant
This work can lead to roles such as Senior Data Engineer or Data Architect, taking on more complex systems and bigger technical decisions.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NOCN rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Data Engineering and Big Data HandlingData VisualisationIntroduction to Data ScienceIntroduction to PythonStatistical Modelling
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Analyst · your map-it-properly tutor Illustration - Map a live decision Analyse
“Data Engineering and Big Data Handling” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Assist in developing data visualisations
- Build and implement data processing systems
- Cleanse Data to Resolve Quality Issues
- Lead the Delivery of the Data Science Capability, Strategy and Framework
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Data Engineering and Big Data Handling, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit explores techniques in data engineering and methods for handling big data effectively.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.
Built for NOCN Level 3 VRQ in Data Science
5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Data Engineering and Big Data Handling
- Data Visualisation
- Introduction to Data Science
- Introduction to Python
- Statistical Modelling
Free tools
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Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.
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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.