Turing awarded £1.7M to convene new community of data professionals

Turing awarded £1.7M to convene new community of data professionals.

The Alan Turing Institute has been awarded £1.7M by UKRI to establish a national network of professionals who work in data, such as data stewards, data librarians, data wranglers and data engineers. The People in Data project, funded for three years, aims to establish a professional data community hub across the UK’s data science ecosystem. 

The People in Data Project aims to establish a Data Professional Community Hub – “People in Data” - across the UK’s broad data science ecosystem. The project will bring together a connected network of existing communities but also create a community space for data professionals that do not identify with existing communities.