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- The centre assesses, and NCC Education Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NCC Education Limited.
This Level 5 Extended Diploma in Computing with Data Science from NCC Education is aimed at individuals seeking to develop their expertise in the digital technology sector, with a focus on data science. Learners will explore topics such as IT project management, data analysis using Python, and the principles of data science and big data.
These are the units NCC Education Limited 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 NCC Education Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. NCC Education Limited 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
Agile Development Real unit · NCC Education Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the background to Agile development, including its origins and evolution.
- Understand the roles within an Agile development team, such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Development Team members.
- Understand the various Agile development techniques, such as Scrum, Kanban, and XP (Extreme Programming).
- Understand an Agile development lifecycle, including sprints, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Understand the principles associated with an Agile development approach, such as iterative development, collaboration, and customer focus.
- Apply an Agile development approach to a particular project scenario, demonstrating the ability to plan, execute, and manage a project using Agile principles.
Analysis, Design and Implementation Real unit · NCC Education Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the seamless transition from object-oriented analysis to object-oriented design.
- Understand how to convert object-oriented analysis and design models into code.
- Understand the quality attributes associated with an object-oriented development, such as maintainability and reusability.
- Understand the concept of maintenance within an object-oriented development environment.
- Produce object-oriented analysis and design models using a CASE tool.
- Convert object-oriented analysis and design models to code using an appropriate Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
- Refactor an object-oriented program to improve its quality, structure, and performance.
Artificial Intelligence Real unit · NCC Education Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its diverse range of applications across various sectors.
- Apply a range of well-established AI search strategies and knowledge representation techniques to solve problems effectively.
- Assess a range of well-established techniques for reasoning with uncertain knowledge and making informed decisions.
- Understand a range of machine learning techniques, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.
- Understand the range of AI techniques that are currently being applied in industry and research settings.
- Implement and evaluate a range of AI models and techniques for solving real-world problems effectively.
Business IT Project Real unit · NCC Education Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and manage the development of a computing artefact.
- Gather and evaluate requirements for an IT project.
- Conduct research to support the development of a computing artefact.
- Employ software engineering techniques in the development of a computing artefact.
- Evaluate the success of a computing artefact.
Data Analysis and Visualisation with Python Real unit · NCC Education Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and apply the core principles of data science to analyse and solve business problems.
- Produce, comprehend, and execute Python code effectively using the Jupyter Notebook environment.
- Analyse and interpret data sets effectively using relevant Python packages and libraries.
- Create effective and informative data visualisations using Matplotlib and Seaborn libraries.
- Apply data analysis and visualisation techniques to analyse and interpret real-world datasets.
IT Project Management Real unit · NCC Education Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the nature of IT projects, their activities, and associated challenges.
- Explain and utilise project planning principles and techniques to address broadly defined, complex problems within IT projects.
- Explain and apply the procedures needed to monitor, control, and report upon the progress of an IT project.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of quality attributes in IT projects and how quality can be assessed and assured.
- Discuss and apply the fundamental principles of project risk management within the context of IT projects.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of project organisation and the dynamics of teamwork within IT project environments.
Introduction to Data Science and Big Data Real unit · NCC Education Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a systematic and thorough understanding of the concepts of Data Science and Big Data, including their characteristics and applications.
- Demonstrate proficiency in data collection, design, and modelling techniques for effective data processing.
- Select appropriate techniques and tools for data pre-processing, including cleaning, transformation, and reduction.
- Understand the analytical techniques and software tools required to effectively generate insights from data.
- Understand the suitability of different visualisation methods for presenting various types of data effectively.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of ethical considerations within the field of Data Science.
Professional and Career Development in IT Real unit · NCC Education Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the key employability attributes sought by employers in the IT sector.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the attributes associated with professionalism in the IT workplace.
- Discuss the ethical and social issues and impacts related to computing and information technology.
- Undertake research into suitable career paths and employment opportunities within the IT industry.
- Develop a comprehensive plan for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to enhance career prospects.
- Participate constructively and effectively in teamwork activities and projects.
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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Assist in the deployment of artificial intelligence solutions
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Build and implement data processing systems
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Deliver Data Driven Business Insights Using a Range of Data Sources
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Deliver Data Management Infrastructure Projects
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Lead the Delivery of the Data Science Capability, Strategy and Framework
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Manage the Data Science Capability for Data Driven Business Insights
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 156 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
Associate AI Strategy Analyst
This work can lead to roles such as senior AI strategist or lead AI strategist, taking on more ownership of strategy and decisions over time.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NCC Education Limited 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
Agile DevelopmentAnalysis, Design and ImplementationArtificial IntelligenceBusiness IT ProjectData Analysis and Visualisation with PythonIT Project ManagementIntroduction to Data Science and Big DataProfessional and Career Development in IT
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 Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Analysis, Design and Implementation” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Data Analysis and Visualisation with Python” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“IT Project Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
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
- Assist in the deployment of artificial intelligence solutions
- Build and implement data processing systems
- Deliver Data Driven Business Insights Using a Range of Data Sources
- Deliver Data Management Infrastructure Projects
- Lead the Delivery of the Data Science Capability, Strategy and Framework
- 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 Agile Development, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides learners with knowledge of Agile development methodologies, including its origins, team roles, techniques like Scrum and Kanban, and the Agile lifecycle. Learners will apply Agile principles in development projects.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NCC Education Level 5 Extended Diploma in Computing with Data Science
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCC Education Limited.
- Agile Development
- Analysis, Design and Implementation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Business IT Project
- Data Analysis and Visualisation with Python
- IT Project Management
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
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