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Dr Dave Tarrant

Programme Lead – Data Literacy, Senior Learning Advisor
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Expertise

David is responsible for the direction and quality of the ODI’s learning offering

David joined the ODI from the University of Southampton where he was a Lecturer in the Web and Internet Science Group. He was responsible for creating one of the world’s first undergraduate course in open data.

Since joining the ODI David has put in place key educational content that has helped transform governments and unlock over $15m for startups. Additionally David has applied his data science skills to build policy making tools for open data leaders, including the Open Data Barometer visualisation.

As Learning Skills Lead, David is responsible for the direction and quality of the ODI’s learning offering. Products include face to face training, eLearning and the ODI’s Learning Records System (LRS). Underpinned by the skills framework, all of these products put together ensure that the ODI can offer high quality online and face to face training to as many people as possible.