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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer OTHM Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and OTHM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OTHM Qualifications.
The OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Data Science is designed to develop learners' skills and knowledge in data analysis and data science, enabling them to extract insights from large datasets for business applications.
These are the units OTHM Qualifications 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 OTHM Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. OTHM Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Advanced Computing Research Methods Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate research approaches in the computing discipline.
- Critically review literature on a relevant research topic.
- Design research methodologies for a computing research problem.
- Develop a research proposal.
Advanced Predictive Modelling Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop models using binary logistic regression and assess their performance.
- Develop applications of multinomial logistic regression and ordinal logistic regression.
- Develop generalised linear models and carry out survival analysis and proportional hazards regression.
Data Analysis and Visualisation Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Critically evaluate the theoretical foundation of data analytics that determine decision-making processes.
- Evaluate a range of predictive analytic techniques to discover new knowledge for forecasting future events.
- Demonstrate prescriptive analytic methods for finding the best course of action for a situation.
Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the theoretical foundation of machine learning and AI.
- Understand the approaches, techniques, and tools used to deploy intelligent systems.
- Understand technical aspects of AI-based systems including modifications and ethical considerations.
Data Science Foundations Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope of Data Science and the roles of Data Scientists.
- Understand Data Science core topics.
- Understand Hadoop and Artificial Intelligence.
- Assess the role, responsibilities, and challenges for data scientists.
Probability and Statistics for Data Analysis Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop understanding of distribution theory.
- Develop understanding of classical inference.
- Develop understanding of Bayesian statistics.
- Develop understanding of Linear modelling.
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.
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Assist in Delivering Data Driven Business Insights
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Create and Manage the Optimal Data Environment and Data Structures
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Lead the Data Analysis Capability, Strategy and Framework
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Lead the Delivery of the Data Science Capability, Strategy and Framework
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Manage Data Analysis Services
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Manage the Data Science Capability for Data Driven Business Insights
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 127 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 Science Manager
This work can lead towards leading a team and setting technical direction, or towards deeper specialism as a principal data scientist, or into managing multiple teams as a director.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OTHM Qualifications 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
Advanced Computing Research MethodsAdvanced Predictive ModellingData Analysis and VisualisationData Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial IntelligenceData Science FoundationsProbability and Statistics for Data Analysis
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.
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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 Delivering Data Driven Business Insights
- Create and Manage the Optimal Data Environment and Data Structures
- Lead the Data Analysis Capability, Strategy and Framework
- Lead the Delivery of the Data Science Capability, Strategy and Framework
- Manage Data Analysis Services
- Manage the Data Science Capability for Data Driven Business Insights
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 Advanced Computing Research Methods, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Develops learners’ ability to prepare for various types of academically based computing research through proposal design.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Data Science
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Advanced Computing Research Methods
- Advanced Predictive Modelling
- Data Analysis and Visualisation
- Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Data Science Foundations
- Probability and Statistics for Data Analysis
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