| Session Date | Module | Session Name | Description | Demonstration | Presentation | Notebook | NCF Competency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22/04/2025 | N/A | Nectar Re-Launch | Showcasing the re-launch of Code Club | 🎬 | 💻 | - | - |
| 01/05/2025 | On-boarding | Python On-boarding | What to install, basic virtual environment management, introduction to VS Code | 🎬 | - | - | SA21 : Python Proficiency |
| 15/05/2025 | On-boarding | Jupyter Notebooks | Demonstration of Jupyter Notebooks | 🎬 | - | 📖 | SA21 : Python Proficiency |
| 29/05/2025 | Exploration & Visualisation | EDA with Pandas | Introduction to exploratory data analysis using pandas | 🎬 | - | 📖 | SA4 : Descriptive and Explicative Analytics |
| 12/06/2025 | Exploration & Visualisation | Visualisation with Seaborn | Aesthetically-pleasing visualisations | 🎬 | - | 📖 | SA1 : Data Visualisation |
| 03/07/2025 | Exploration & Visualisation | EDA with Seaborn | Using seaborn to visualise and explore data | 🎬 | - | 📖 | SA4 : Descriptive and Explicative Analytics |
| 17/07/2025 | Core concepts | Data Types | Introduction to data types | - | 💻 | 📖 | SA21 : Python Proficiency |
| 31/07/2025 | Core concepts | Control Flow | Introduction to control flow | - | 💻 | 📖 | SA21 : Python Proficiency |
| 14/08/2025 | Core concepts | Functions & Functional Programming | Introduction to functions and functional programming | - | 💻 | 📖 | SA21 : Python Proficiency |
| 28/08/2025 | Core concepts | Object-Oriented Programming | Introduction to object-oriented programming | - | 💻 | 📖 | SA21 : Python Proficiency |
| 11/09/2025 | Exploration & Visualisation | Streamlit dashboards | How to present data (visualisations) in a Streamlit dashboard | 🎬 | - | - | SA1 : Data Visualisation |
| 25/09/2025 | Data Science | Comparing Samples | Understanding data distributions and comparisons between samples | - | 💻 | 📖 | SA4 : Descriptive and Explicative Analytics |
| 09/10/2025 | Data Science | Analysing Relationships | Quantifying relationships with hypothesis tests and statistical significance | - | 💻 | 📖 | SA15 : Hypothesis Testing |
| 23/10/2025 | Data Science | Introduction to Linear Regression | Introduction to regression concepts and the component parts of linear regression | - | 💻 | 📖 | SA7 : Advanced Statistics |
| 06/11/2025 | Data Science | Implementing Linear Regression | Building linear models, assessing model fit, and interpreting coefficients | 🎬 | 💻 | 📖 | SA7 : Advanced Statistics |
| 20/11/2025 | Data Science | Beyond Linearity | Introduction to generalised linear regression models | 🎬 | 💻 | 📖 | SA7 : Advanced Statistics |
Schedule
This is the schedule for Code Club in FY25/26.
The Demonstration, Presentation, and Notebook columns indicate the content to be expected for each session:
- Demonstration: A live show-and-tell relating to the discussion topic.
- Presentation: A slide deck covering the discussion topic.
- Notebook: A Jupyter Notebook containing code-along elements or examples for people to work through after the session.
Tutorials will be divided into Modules. We recommend that people attend or watch tutorials in the Core module in order to gain a fundamental understanding of coding concepts and resources. Further modules are to be confirmed, but will likely include Automation, Dashboards and Visualisation, and Data Science. People will be able to attend those modules that interest them.
We have mapped the contents of the syllabus to competencies in the National Competency Framework for Data Professionals in Health and Care so that you can see which sessions will help you on your way towards them. For full details of the skills in the framework, the self-assessment tool can be found on FutureNHS.
Please note that this is a first draft of the mapping of NCF competencies to our syllabus and it is awaiting review.